MacDougall Auctions 7-11 June 2010
7 June 2010
95. A TRIPTYCH OF ST NICHOLAS THE MIRACLE-WORKER IN A SILVER-GILT OKLAD WITH SCENES FROM HIS LIFE
YAROSLAVL, 18TH CENTURY ICON, WITH 17TH CENTURY (?) FOLDS
Extended 48 by 66.5 cm, closed 48 by 32.5 cm.
45,000-55,000 pounds
St Nicholas the Miracle Worker was very widely venerated
in Rus’, and in the Middle Ages, not a day passed in the life
of a Russian without a prayer addressed to him. There were
special iconographic interpretations and forms for the veneration of hi
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