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LOT 0368
Russian Icon with Bust of Christ Pantokrator
17TH CENTURY A.D.
12 x 10 1/4 in. (1.53 kg. 30.5 x 26 cm).
Rectangular wooden board with mounting bars to reverse, silver-coloured metal riza with reserved epigraphic panels and circular void to reveal painted icon beneath; separate two-piece gilt revetment, the upper with pierced edge and reserved capitals, the scooped lower panel bearing reserved tendril ornament.
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market.
Private collection, London, UK.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12553-231940.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Literature
Cf. for similar Oklad in Various, Russian Silver of the Fourteenth to early Twentieth Centuries from Moscow Kremlin Reserve, (in Russian and English), Moscow, 1984, pls.42,49 (nimbus), 46 (crescent); for a similar icon of the Pantocrator see Sulikowska-Bełczowska, A., ‘The Cult of Old Believers Domestic Icons and the Beginning of Old Belief in Russia in the 17th-18th Centuries’ in Religions, 2019, 10, 574, pp.1-17, fig.2, p.3; see also an icon with the bust of Christ, from Hermitage (inv. ERI-508) in Piatnitsky, Y., Baddeley, O., Brunner, E., Mundell Mango, M., Sinai, Byzantium, Russia, Orthodox Art from the Sixth to Twentieth Century, London, 2000, fig.R26, p.274.
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LOT 0368
Russian Icon with Bust of Christ Pantokrator
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000€3,480 - 4,640 (for guidance only)$4,050 - 5,400 (for guidance only)
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