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LOT 1897
Russian Orthodox Gilt Wooden Icon with Patriarch
LATE 19TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in. (237 grams, 18.2 x 13.5 cm).
Wearing a tall clerical headdress and mantle, large religious pendant suspended beneath the long beard, left hand holding a crozier and right hand making the gesture of blessing; Cyrillic inscription flanking the halo. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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