LOT 348
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Lot 348
AN INTERESTING RUSSIAN DOUBLE-SIDED PROCESSIONAL ICON, CIRCA 1800. On one side the Holy Image and the other side the Resurrection. An interesting story explains the traditional origin of this icon type known in Russian iconography as the Image Not Made By Hands. In New Testament times King Abgar of the Syrian city of Edessa fell ill and sent his court artist Ananias to sketch an image of Christ. So great were the stories of Christ’s healing power, that King Abgar believed if only he could see an image of Jesus, he too could be healed. Ananias was unable to get close enough to sketch Christ. However, knowing this, Christ sought him out in the crowd and pressed a cloth to his own face, miraculously imprinting it with his image and telling Ananias to take the cloth to Abgar. Upon seeing the cloth, Abgar was healed but retained a slight touch of his former illness until Thaddeus, a disciple of Christ, came and baptized him. Because the image appeared miraculously and was not painted, it is called 'The Image Not Made by Hands.' It is also sometimes referred to as the 'first icon.' In this example, like many, the cloth is held by two angels. The head of Christ is surrounded by the distinctive cross-halo inscribed with the Greek words HO ON, meaning 'Who Is,' found in Revelation 1:8 and given in Exodus 3:14 as a title of God. The inscription embroidered along the bottom of the cloth reads, SVYATUIY UBRUS- The Holy Cloth. The upper margin inscribed, The Not-by-Hands-Made Image of Our Lord. The lower margin inscribed with a prayer which begins, 'Oh Christ God in Whom we trust…' The opposite side displaying an interesting rendering of the resurrected Christ at center, his empty sarcophagus below and within a cave in the background. At lower left Roman soldiers sleep. In the lower right corner an angel of the Lord and a gathering of women identified by the inscription above their heads, ZHENUI MIRONOSITSUI- The Myrrh-Bearing Women. The inscription along the upper border identifies the subject as, The Image of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 12.25 inches x 10.25 inches (31cm x 26cm).
Estimate:
$800 - 1,200
€ 600 - 900
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