‡ A SET OF TWELVE MENALOGICAL RUSSIAN ICONS, MOSCOW SCHOOL, LATE 19TH CENTURY
egg tempera on gesso and wood, each gilt ground panel titled for the month above four registers of painted figures for the relevant saints and titles of the feast days of the liturgical calendar of the Orthodox church, with red, green and blue geometric borders, January panel 35 x 27cm It is rare to find full sets of twelve panels of icons representing the liturgical year: for another similarly sized set but in a three-part steel frame see Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 22 February 2006, lot 557; for a set of smaller panels see Hargesheimer, Düsseldorf, 7 April 2017, lot 302.egg tempera on gesso and wood, each gilt ground panel titled for the month above four registers of painted figures for the relevant saints and titles of the feast days of the liturgical calendar of the Orthodox church, with red, green and blue geometric borders, January panel 35 x 27cm It is rare to find full sets of twelve panels of icons representing the liturgical year: for another similarly sized set but in a three-part steel frame see Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 22 February 2006, lot 557; for a set of smaller panels see Hargesheimer, Düsseldorf, 7 April 2017, lot 302.
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egg tempera on gesso and wood, each gilt ground panel titled for the month above four registers of painted figures for the relevant saints and titles of the feast days of the liturgical calendar of the Orthodox church, with red, green and blue geometric borders, January panel 35 x 27cm It is rare to find full sets of twelve panels of icons representing the liturgical year: for another similarly sized set but in a three-part steel frame see Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 22 February 2006, lot 557; for a set of smaller panels see Hargesheimer, Düsseldorf, 7 April 2017, lot 302.egg tempera on gesso and wood, each gilt ground panel titled for the month above four registers of painted figures for the relevant saints and titles of the feast days of the liturgical calendar of the Orthodox church, with red, green and blue geometric borders, January panel 35 x 27cm It is rare to find full sets of twelve panels of icons representing the liturgical year: for another similarly sized set but in a three-part steel frame see Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 22 February 2006, lot 557; for a set of smaller panels see Hargesheimer, Düsseldorf, 7 April 2017, lot 302.
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