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Portrait of Emperor Napoleon I. Oil on canvas, unsigned, 19th century. Portrait of Emperor Napoleon I depicted in full military uniform, adorned with prestigious medal decorations, including the Legion of Honour. The painting is framed in an ornate gilded profile frame, exuding imperial grandeur. The artwork shows slight signs of age, with minor damage consistent with its historical provenance, adding to its timeless charm. A striking and regal piece, capturing the majesty of Napoleon’s reign. Attributed to François Gérard (1770-1837), a renowned French portrait painter and Baron Gérard, celebrated for his works of Napoleonic figures.
Dimensions with frame: 67 x 60 cm., without frame: 40.5 x 33 cm.

Starting price: 5000€
Estimate: 7000-9000€

Icon of Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky in Silver Riza
Moscow, mid-19th century
Icon: wood, oil painting
Riza: silver (84 zolotnik), chased and mounted
Maker’s mark: BC
Dimensions: 22.5 × 18 × 3 cm
Riza weight: 135.3 g

This elegant icondepicts Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky, one of the most venerated Russian military saints and a national hero. The saint is portrayed standing, dressed in princely armor and a cloak, his gaze turned heavenward toward Christ Pantocrator, who appears in the upper left blessing the prince.

The finely painted composition is overlaid with a richly ornamented massive silver riza (revetment) in the baroque style, elaborately chased with floral cartouches and architectural motifs.

Starting price: 1300€
Estimate: 1500-2000€
Hammer Price: Not sold

A 20th c. Afghan Afghanistan pulwar sabre Islamic sword

An excellent heavy blade decorated in characteristic style.

Dimensions:
Total length: 93.7 cm.
Blade length: 80 cm.
Blade wide: 3 cm.

Starting price: 250€
Estimate: 300-350€
Hammer Price: UNSOLD€

A Fine Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God in a silver-gilt oklad.
Moscow, icon mid 19th century; oklad: Moscow, workshop of Mikhail Dmitrievich Shein, 1867.
Wood, tempera; silver, parcel gilding, repoussé, chasing, engraving, applied ornament, coloured glass.
Dimensions: 31.5 x 27.5 x 3.5 cm.
Marks: maker’s mark “МШ” for Mikhail Dmitrievich Shein; Moscow assay mark “П.А / 1867”; 84 zolotnik silver standard; Moscow city mark with St George.
A Russian icon of the Vladimir Mother of God, one of the most revered Byzantine-derived iconographic types in Orthodox art. The Virgin is shown in the tender Eleusa type, inclining her head toward the Christ Child, whose cheek is pressed against hers.
The icon is set in a richly worked silver-gilt oklad. The ground is densely chased with scrolling floral ornament, small blossoms and foliate tendrils. The halo of the Mother of God is separately applied and gilded, with engraved vegetal decoration and inset red and colourless glass pastes. The gilded collar of the Christ Child bears the sacred abbreviation “ОѾ””, while small name plaques identify the figures with the inscriptions “IC XC” and “ВЛАДИМИРСКАЯ”.
The four corners of the oklad are decorated with gilded relief images of the Evangelists seated at writing desks within architectural settings. The border is finished with beaded and ribbed bands, typical of mid-19th-century Moscow silverwork.
Mikhail Dmitrievich Shein was a Moscow silversmith and owner of a silver workshop, whose mark consists of the initials “МШ”. Works by Shein, including an icon oklad and a cream jug, are known in the collection of the State Historical Museum. (https://catalog.shm.ru/entity/OBJECT/1713520?index=1&paginator=entity-set&entityType=OBJECT&entityId=1713522&attribute=like_predm&ysclid=moh447zzvk36607535)

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3500€
Hammer Price: Not sold

Icon of Saint John the Baptist
Central Russia, second half of the 19th century
Tempera on wood
Dimensions: 35.5 × 30.5 cm

A finely painted Russian icon depicting Saint John the Baptist, portrayed half-length and holding a chalice containing the image of the infant Christ — a symbolic reference to his prophecy of the coming of the Savior and his role as the Forerunner. In his left hand, the saint holds a scroll with a passage from the Gospel.

The borders feature Saint Anna on the left and a Guardian Angel on the right, painted within small decorative panels.

Starting price: 400€
Estimate: 500-600€
Hammer Price: Not sold

Russian icon of Saint Joasaph, Bishop of Belgorod.
Central Russia, after 1911.
Wood, gesso, oil; gilding, painted ornament, applied decorative pastiglia.
Dimensions: 31.2 x 27 x 3 cm.
Inscription: along the lower cartouche: “Св. Iоасафъ Еп. Белгород…”
Saint Joasaph, Bishop of Belgorod.
An icon depicting Saint Joasaph of Belgorod in full episcopal vestments, standing frontally within an architectural interior. The saint is shown as a hierarch: in a blue sakkos with floral ornament, omophorion, episcopal mitre and medallion panagia. In his right hand he holds a blessing cross; in his left, a staff with a green veil. In the upper left corner appears Christ Pantocrator in a cloud mandorla, blessing the saint and holding the Gospel.
The border is richly decorated with gilded relief ornament imitating the effect of an enamelled or jewelled frame. Scrolling foliage, dark blue reserves, green and turquoise accents, and rows of small pearl-like beads create a festive ornamental setting.
Saint Joasaph of Belgorod, who died in 1754, was one of the most venerated Russian hierarchs of the eighteenth century. His incorrupt relics and reported miracles formed the basis of a powerful local and national cult, and his official glorification by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1911 led to a broad dissemination of his icons. The present image should therefore be understood in the context of this renewed veneration on the eve of the First World War.

Starting price: 800€
Estimate: 1000-1200€
Hammer Price: Not sold

Sergey Petrovich Shablavin “Tulips”. 1986. Orgalite, oil. “Sergey Petrovich Shablavin, born on April 7, 1944, in Kirsanov (Tambov region), graduated from the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics in 1967 and studied at the Correspondence People’s University of Arts from 1979 to 1981. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1977. Shablavin lives and works in Moscow and Cologne. His works are held in collections such as the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), Museum of Contemporary Art ART4.RU (Moscow), Bochum Museum (Germany), Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (Germany), Bayer Museum (Leverkusen), and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum (USA), among others. Dimensions without frame: 69 x 51 cm.

Starting price: 1500€
Estimate: 2000-2500€