MacDougall Auctions 7-11 June 2010
7 June 2010
81. AN IMPORTANT MONUMENTAL ICON OF THE MIRACLE OF THE VEIL OF THE MOTHER OF GOD
CENTRAL RUSSIA, END OF THE 16TH CENTURY TO CIRCA 1600
134 by 116 cm.
130,000-150,000 pounds
Related literature: Novgorod Icons of the 12th-17th Centuries, Leningrad, 1974, ill. 238.
This icon is an extraordinarily rare shrine image depicting
the feast-day event of the Placing of the Robe of the Mother
of God on the a
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