AN ICON OF ST. JOHN

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AN ICON OF ST. JOHN
19th century

St. John, presumably on Patmos, with a younger saint at his feet holding either a Book of Gospels or the Revelations, the silver gilt oklad finely embossed with rocks and foliage and with a border of cornucopia and trailing foliate vines, and with maker's mark in Cyrillic S.E, Moscow, 1838, assay master N. Dubrovin -- (31x27cm.)