A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO ICON OF CHRIST PANTOCRATOR
MAKER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'LE', ST PETERSBURG, 1875
Rectangular with rounded corners, Christ realistically depicted, raising his right hand in benediction and holding the Gospels in his left hand, his silver-gilt vestments nielloed with foliate motifs, within a similarly nielloed border, marked on upper edge, halo and lower left
10½ x 9 in. (26.7 x 22.9 cm.)
A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO ICON OF CHRIST PANTOCRATOR
MAKER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'LE', ST PETERSBURG, 1875
Rectangular with rounded corners, Christ realistically depicted, raising his right hand in benediction and holding the Gospels in his left hand, his silver-gilt vestments nielloed with foliate motifs, within a similarly nielloed border, marked on upper edge, halo and lower left
10½ x 9 in. (26.7 x 22.9 cm.)
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