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Lot 2501
A Grouping of Four Antique Bronze and Enamel Russian Icons
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Second half of 19th century, the first a four panel traveling polyptych screen depicting the Church feasts and Veneration of the icons of Mother of God (7 x 16 1/4 in. open, 7 x 4 in, each panel); the second of a Madonna and Child, bronze and enamel (5 1/8 x 4 1/2 x 1/4 in.); the third of Saint Antipas of Pergamum centered below smaller relief tondos of the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist on either side of the Holy face (4 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.); the fourth of the Savior of Blessed Silence surrounded by half figure relief tondos of selected saints (6 x 5 1/8 in.).

From the Collection of the late Ronald and Elizabeth Sher, Pittsboro, North Carolina

Some scattered enamel loss and small nicks and marks to bronze.