MacDougall Auctions 8 June 2009
8 June 2009
* 216. A GROUP OF TWELVE MINIATURE ICONS
RUSSIAN, CIRCA 1900
The largest 10.4 by 9 cm., the smallest 5 by 4.3 cm.
600-800 pounds
Ten of the icons are made of painted enamel on thin copper plates, set in plain or more elaborate frames; the icon of the Holy Abbot Tikhon of Kaluga is painted in oil on metal and lastly, the oval icon of St. Aleksei the Metropolitan of Moscow is meticulously painted with bright colours on gold leaf.
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