JEWELLERY, ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 25 June 2019 - 9:30 AM start
A 19thC Russian icon of St Barbara (the Great Martyr Barbara)
Realised: $3,300 plus premium
Lot Details
painted on panel faced with a silver gilt oklad (with 84 zolotnik silver kokoshnik mark and maker’s mark to the filigree halo. Held within a mercury gilded frame and walnut serpentine outline glazed case. 335 x 290mm (case). Provenance. Bought by Adonis Patellis a trader working in the Odessa region of Russia in the late 19th, early 20thC and taken to Greece in 1918. Bequeathed to Kalotina Kouremetis (nee Patellis) thence by bequest in 1973 to her son and our vendor. Newspaper found behind the icon dated to c.1918. See further details online cordys.co.nz
