Lot number 2492 - Auction 151
sEHR FEINE UND SEHR SELTENE IKONE MIT DEM METROPOLITEN ALEKSIJ, DER DIE TATARENKÖNIGIGN TAIDULLA HEILT

A VERY FINE AND VERY RARE ICON DEPICTING METROPOLITAN ALEXIS HEALING THE TATAR QUEEN TAIDULLa Russian, mid-16th century Tempera on wood panel with double kovcheg, haloes and background gilded. Set into a later panel (vrezka), partially restored. 29.6 × 24.5 cm. Exhibited: Art of the Christian East: Icons and Applied Arts, Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst, 2-31 March 1986, cat. no. 88.