LARGE RUSSIAN ICON OF THE BIRTH OF ST. JOHN SILVER & ENAMEL MOUNTED WOOD CROSS

LARGE RUSSIAN ICON OF THE BIRTH OF ST. JOHN SILVER & ENAMEL MOUNTED WOOD CROSSAN IMPRESSIVE RUSSIAN ICON OF THE BIRTH OF ST. JOHN THE FORERUNNER (BAPTIST), CIRCA 1890. Here Elizabeth, the mother of John, is shown mid left reclining on a bed after having given birth. On the right, her husband Zakharias is shown writing the name of John on a scroll. At the base are two attendants. One holds the newborn John and tests the warmth of the water being poured into the basin by the other attendant. At mid center, an attendant cares for

(1780-1800)

each with five reserves and depicting various Saints and scenes

Size: height= 6

According to the New Testament

Nevertheless

Size: 31x26 cm

5 x 25 cm)

Anchors are depicted upside down

the depictions gradually become more evangelically exact

called Pascha (Easter)

A reference to an "archangel" also appears in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians 4:16

The oklad hallmarked Moscow