RETURN OF THE RELICS OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTUM
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
In this miniature icon the saint's relics lie on a bier that is being carried across a brown hilly landscape by three deacons, while two bishops follow in its wake. Behind the procession are visible a palace on the left and a church on the right.
- Object name:
- RETURN OF THE RELICS OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTUM
- Made from:
- Tempera on wood
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- 18th c.-19th c.
- Size:
- 5.6 × 5.4 cm (2 3/16 × 2 1/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 54.46
- Class:
- ICON
- Signature marks:
- LABEL verso: "Torgsin No 7233/18, c/1488, 8r [crossed out]" (on label); "n/343 17 cm" (on label); "/K122 3r 3" (on torn label)
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973