Russian Christian Icon: St John Baptist and Jesus, w oklad, 1500-1700 AD

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Russian Christian Icon: St John Baptist and Jesus, w oklad, 1500-1700 AD:
$70000.00

Russian Orthodox Christian Icon: St John the Baptist and Jesus, with metal oklad, 1500-1700 AD

St John the Baptist holds a bowl with Jesus child with left hand.

Why Jesus as a child?

-May be to show immaturity of the soul before baptizing.

Right hand makes a gesture of baptizing.

There is a leave from the bible (below the bowl with a Jesus)with a short message from the Biblein old Slavic language.

There are two inscriptions on the metal oklad: in the left corner – 4 letters (probably for St John); in the right corner – 3 letters ПРЕ пречистый, which means PURE.

Height: 14” inches = 36 cm

Width: 12” inches = 31.5 cm

Weight: 1670 g = 3 lb. 10 oz.

A lot of carved writings on the back in Old Russian Staroslavic language.

The first word isиоанн= IOANN

Condition: scattered small areas of loss of the paint, otherwise very good for this age.

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