A RARE RUSSIAN PORCELAIN ICON OF ST. ALEXIS THE METROPOLITAN...
Rectangular, realistically painted with St. Alexis the Metropolitan of Moscow, with his hand raised in blessing, against a gilt background embossed with scrolling foliage, apparently unmarked, signed with initials 'T.S' for Timofei Semenov
71⁄8 in. (18.1 cm.) high
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This porcelain icon was painted by Timofei Semenov (b. 1827-?) who came from a family of Imperial Porcelain Factory painters. He was appointed assistant master in 1849 and then master painter in 1854. For a comparable porcelain icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh dated 1881 in a porcelain frame designed by Karl Stelb from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii Farforovyi Zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 554.
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Rectangular, realistically painted with St. Alexis the Metropolitan of Moscow, with his hand raised in blessing, against a gilt background embossed with scrolling foliage, apparently unmarked, signed with initials 'T.S' for Timofei Semenov
71⁄8 in. (18.1 cm.) high
Lot Essay
This porcelain icon was painted by Timofei Semenov (b. 1827-?) who came from a family of Imperial Porcelain Factory painters. He was appointed assistant master in 1849 and then master painter in 1854. For a comparable porcelain icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh dated 1881 in a porcelain frame designed by Karl Stelb from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii Farforovyi Zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 554.
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