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LOT 1911
Gilt Painted Wooden Icon of Saint Paraskevi
CIRCA 19TH CENTURY A.D.
12 1/4 in. (854 grams, 31 cm).
Depicting a richly dressed facing figure, crowned and nimbate, winged angels on clouds flanking the head; holding a cross in her right hand and a scroll in her proper left arm bearing handwritten Slavic script of the Nicene Creed; additional Slavic script with her name across the right and left fields.
ProvenanceEx French gallery, Paris.
LiteratureCf. similar icon of Saint Paraskevi in Kostroma State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, inv. no. KP 04550.
FootnotesSaint Paraskevi is usually depicted holding an Eastern Cross and a scroll with the words from the Nicene Creed (here, in old Slavonic: Верую во единаго Бога Отца, Вседержителя, Творца небу и земли,видимым же всем и невидимым = We believe in one God, the Father, the almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen), professing her faith in another while being crowned with the crown of the martyrdom by two angels.
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