Icon “St. Nicholas the Wonderworker” in an enamel frame in the Art Nouveau style. Moscow.1900

Icon “St. Nicholas the Wonderworker” in an enamel frame in the Art Nouveau style, with stylized organic flowers and stars, in a cross-section of a five-domed temple. Setting: Imperial Stroganov School, presumably a project by I. Nivinsky, early 20th century. Copper alloy, polychrome enamels. Bust-length icon of the miracle worker with a halo of cloisonné enamels: wood, gesso, tempera. For safety it is covered with thin plexiglass. Condition: good. Chips of enamel, loss of suspension, soldering of the central suspension fastening. Dimensions: 23 x 13 cm (according to the frame), icon - 5.5 x 6.5 cm. Items of similar design by I. Nivinsky were published in the state catalog, in the publication “Collection of compositions of students at the Stroganov School”. Moscow, Levenson Printing House, 1900.