Sale 7522
London
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11 June 2007
Price realised
GBP 2,640
Estimate
ST. VASILII OF CAPPADOCIA RUSSIAN, 16TH CENTURY The Church Father portrayed frontal, half length, blessing and carrying the closed Gospels, his elderly facial features finely executed, wearing the phelonion and the omophorion, the former with dense chrysography, the latter decorated with crosses 12 1/8 x 10¾ in. (30.75 x 27.25 cm)
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