FINELY PAINTED RUSSIAN SilVER  ICON OF CHRIST PANTOCRATOR

Early 19th Century.

Ornate repoussé silver riza with a gilded halo. Silver marks for St. Petersburg, 1839, maker's mark “AC”, and assayer’s mark for Dimitry Ilyich Tverskoy. Set within a wooden frame within a glass-fronted wooden shadow box.

Icon 10.5” x 8.5” (26 x 22 cm).

Kiot  14.5” x 12.5” x 3.125”.

Provenance:

The estate of Antoine Volkoff, former Consul General of the Imperial Russian Government in Chicago in the 1910’s.