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Russian Orthodox Enamelled Bronze Travel Icon with Anastasis Russian Orthodox Enamelled Bronze Travel Icon with Anastasis Russian Orthodox Enamelled Bronze Travel Icon with Anastasis
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LOT 2316

Russian Orthodox Enamelled Bronze Travel Icon with Anastasis

19TH CENTURY A.D.

4 3/8 in. (200 grams, 11 cm).

With blue, yellow, white and green enamel, representing the Anastasis (Resurrection of Christ); the Saviour represented on two registers, in the upper one (Resurrection) emerging from the grave, surrounded by the hesychastic light, with the Roman soldiers falling asleep, and the apostles and a cherub beside him; in the lower register (Descent into Hades) Christ surrounded by the same divine light, leading the people from the Limbo, Adam and Eve, King David and Salomon and other souls to heaven; the frame decorated with gilt arabesques on blue enamel, inscriptions in Old Slavonic at the top.

Provenance

Acquired from Chris Martin-Zakheim, Iconastas, 5 Piccadilly Arcade, London SW1.
From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.

Literature

Cf. Eighme Ahlborn, R., Beaver-Bricken Espinola, V., Russian Copper Icons and crosses from the Kunz Collection: Castings of Faith, Washington, 1991, nos.25819.006, p.43; 055 p.47; 057 p.48, for similar iconography.

Footnotes

The iconography is typical of the Anastasis or Resurrection of Christ, with the gates of Hades broken under the feet of Christ, echoing the phrase: 'Christ is Risen From the Dead, Trampling Down Death by Death, and Upon Those in the Tombs Bestowing Life!'

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LOT 2316

Russian Orthodox Enamelled Bronze Travel Icon with Anastasis

Sold for (Inc. bp): £169

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