Lot number 2029 - Auction 142
FEINES DOPPELSEITIGES TABLETKA FÜR DEN MONAT SEPTEMBER

A DOUBLE-SIDED TABLETKA FOR SEPTEMBER ACCORDING TO THE OLD LITURGICAL CALENDAR Russian, 16th century The feasts celebrated during the first month of the Ecclesiastical Year arranged over three registers beginning from the upper left corner; prominent among them being the Birth of the Mother of God and St. Sophia with her daugthers. The narrative episodes represented against architectural settings, the individual saints portrayed on gold ground, their miniature figures rendered meticulously, mostly with reds and greens against an ochre background. Later metal mount. 19.2 x 16 cm.