LOT 479
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Lot 479
AN INTERESTING RUSSIAN FAMILY MEMORIAL ICON DIPTYCH, ST. PETERSBURG 1863. The matching hinged arched topped wings each containing an icon of the Mother of God. On the left the Kazanskaya with machine-engraved gilt riza and later painted icon and on the right a gilt metal relief icon pendant of the Hodigitria Mother of God. The second framed under glass against a lock of hair. The lower margins engraved in Cyrillic, “Your mothers icons and hair” and on the upper margin, also engraved in Cyrillic, “16 July 1863 Baden-Baden” presumably the day, year, and location of death. The hinged panels hallmarked St. Petersburg, dated 1863, and possibly Latin makers mark of “CS,” and 84 silver standard. The verso of each panel backed in a ribbed exotic wood with silver studs around the border and the top of each panel with folding suspension loop. 4.75 x 6.75 inches (12 x 17 cm) open.
Estimate:
$500 - 750
€ 350 - 525
Baden-Baden’s Russian links date back to 1793 when the future Tsar Alexander I, took Louise, Princess of Baden, as his wife. Later, many Russians, including Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy flocked there after gambling was banned in their motherland. A small church there was consecrated in 1859 to serve the Russian community in Baden-Baden. It was later replaced by a substantial stone church dedicated to the Transfiguration, which was completed in 1882 and which was visited by Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra in 1892.
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