RUSSIA, 18TH CENTURY
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Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker
Russia, 18th century
Traditionally painted in sombre colours, with his right hand raised in blessing, his left holding the book of Gospels, with Christ and the Mother of God in roundels at his shoulders, in contemporary oklad, repoussé, chased and engraved with scrolling foliate, with later applied halo set with coloured stones
12¾ x 10 5/8in. (32.5 x 27cm.)
Russia, 18th century
Traditionally painted in sombre colours, with his right hand raised in blessing, his left holding the book of Gospels, with Christ and the Mother of God in roundels at his shoulders, in contemporary oklad, repoussé, chased and engraved with scrolling foliate, with later applied halo set with coloured stones
12¾ x 10 5/8in. (32.5 x 27cm.)