Miniature travelling double icon with gold oklad (riza). The front is painted with The Holy Mandylion or Holy Face (also known as Not Made By Hands, Russian: Спас Нерукотворный),
the reverse - with St. Nicholas.
1 7/8 x 2 3/16 in. (4,8 x 5,7 cm)
The chased two-tone gold oklad was made in Moscow in 1814.
Icons with gold oklads are extremely rare.
The oklad is marked with an exceptionally rare 92 zolotniks standard (956 gold).
$14,000.00
In this icon the face of Christ is seen as it was miraculously transferred to a cloth.
The cloth is of matte gold, the halo, and fields are polished gold.
The lower right corner is engraved with 'Russ', an ancient name for Russia. The meaning of the abbreviation in the lower left corner is unclear. The date of the oklad (1814) coincides with the final phase of the war against Napoleon, when the Russian army captured Paris on March 31, 1814.
St. Nicholas on the reverse
The oklad is struck with Moscow city mark dated 1814, master's initials Cyrillic 'I.T' (possibly for Ivan Timofeev), and 92 zolotniks standard.
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