MEDALLION WITH A GUARDIAN ANGEL (SVIATYI ANGEL KHRANITEL')
Creator(s): Ivan Ostrovskikh (Silversmith)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Medallion is engraved and nielloed with a seated Saint holding a staff while behind her is an Archangel holding a cross aloft. Above is a cloud with a triangle centering the letters ETA signifying the Trinity. To right and left is an inscription.
- Object name:
- MEDALLION WITH A GUARDIAN ANGEL (SVIATYI ANGEL KHRANITEL')
- Made from:
- Silver -- niello
- Made in:
- Veliky Ustyug, Russia
- Date made:
- 1815
- Size:
- 7.9 × 6.7 cm (3 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.22
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION; MARK on back: seated man, M.N./1815 in a square, 84 for silver standard, I.O. in a square on front: ETA
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973