#1 • Fabergé Icon "The Iverskaya Madonna"

Part of The Exceptional Estates of Katherine Eirk and Ed Veazey (live auction by Wardlow Auctions)

High bid $18,500.00

Status: Sold

Category: Historical Pieces

"The Iverskaya Madonna" icon by Carl Fabergé in Moscow, circa late 1800's. With a silver gilt frame and halo in Pan-Slavic style and four mounted sapphires. The frame is marked 84 with a Kokoshnik eagle and Cyrillic lettering. This piece is being sold with its original receipt from Christie's and the catalog from their Russian Works of Art auction in 1979, which depicts this icon on pages 45 and 47. The work is hanging in a blue velvet-lined shadow box. Size: Frame is 6.25"w x 2"d x 6.75"h; icon is approximately 2"w x 2.5"h to bail Location: Second Floor Hallway