February 24, 2022 10:00 EST

The Gilded Age

 
  Lot 26
 
Lot 26 - A Group of Four Polychrome and Gilt Painted Panel Icons

26

A Group of Four Polychrome and Gilt Painted Panel Icons
Russian, 18th/19th century

Comprising two depicting the Virgin and Child, one of Our Lady of the Sign, and one of Christ enthroned flanked by Mary and Saint John the Baptist, above a register of five saints. (4).

H: 16 1/4, W: 12 1/2 in. (largest)

Provenance

Property from the collection of Mr. Norman Potter, acquired prior to December 28, 1970.
Thence by descent.

Sold for $1,890
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500


 

Comprising two depicting the Virgin and Child, one of Our Lady of the Sign, and one of Christ enthroned flanked by Mary and Saint John the Baptist, above a register of five saints. (4).

Provenance

Property from the collection of Mr. Norman Potter, acquired prior to December 28, 1970.
Thence by descent.

Note

Norman Stanley Potter (1926–1970) was a collector with wide-ranging interests who developed an eye for classical arts and built a collection of Asian art, antiquities, and early European art. Born to Polish immigrants in New York City, Potter began his self-edification in the arts while exploring the Metropolitan Museum of Art in his youth. As a prominent mathematician and engineer, he participated in the Manhattan Project and later was a designer of complex defense systems. Together with his wife, the abstract artist Berne Potter, he was active in the art and antique worlds of New York and became friends with important gallerists and collectors, including Julius Carlebach and Melvin Gutman.

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