Archangel Michael

Lot 100
17.06.2017 16:00UTC +01:00
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€ 30 000
AuctioneerGalerie Moenius AG
Event locationSwitzerland, Muri
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ID 1850
Lot 100 | Archangel Michael
Estimate value
€ 15 000
Russian icon with gilded silver oklad (1106g), Mocow 1849
Assay Master: Andrei Kovalsky (1821 - 1856)
Master: Nikolai D. Poltavtsev
31,5 x 26,7 cm

This amazing, unique and relief-like icon was made by the purveyor to the court of Nicholas I, Nikolai D. Poltavtsev. He had the fourth largest silver factory in Moscow at the middle of the 19th c., and he mainly produced clerical equipments. See an article about him and his items in the Moscow Kremlin under www.kreml.ru/fi/c5m5/i1232/v20s12_Kovarskaya.pdf
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