A RUSSIAN TRAVELING ICON OF ST. NICHOLAS THE WONDERWORKER WITH IMPORTED GILT SILVER AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL FRAME, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
A RUSSIAN TRAVELING ICON OF ST. NICHOLAS THE WONDERWORKER WITH IMPORTED GILT SILVER AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL FRAME, MOSCOW, 1908-1917 depicting St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, holding a Gospel in one hand and raising the other in a gesture of benediction, egg tempera and gesso on wood panel, overlaid with rounded arch-shaped silver and champleve enamel frame decorated overall with foliate floral designs, with geometric columnar borders, marked with 84 standard and kokoshnik mark, set in custom-made wooden kiot carved with Pan-Slavic decorations; dimensions of icon not including suspension loop: 8.9 x 7.3 cm (3 1/2 x 2 7/8 in.)
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A RUSSIAN TRAVELING ICON OF ST. NICHOLAS THE WONDERWORKER WITH IMPORTED GILT SILVER AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL FRAME, MOSCOW, 1908-1917 depicting St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, holding a Gospel in one hand and raising the other in a gesture of benediction, egg tempera and gesso on wood panel, overlaid with rounded arch-shaped silver and champleve enamel frame decorated overall with foliate floral designs, with geometric columnar borders, marked with 84 standard and kokoshnik mark, set in custom-made wooden kiot carved with Pan-Slavic decorations; dimensions of icon not including suspension loop: 8.9 x 7.3 cm (3 1/2 x 2 7/8 in.)