Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Sold both in fine art museums

both in fine art museums &amp

The vessel with a deep blue glaze and having a band of incised Islamic calligraphy to the top

137 cm X 106

The table having very finely carved masks of bats (symbolizing good luck) on the knees of the cabriole legs

Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Sold both in fine art museumsA good and large, late 18th century, Greek, Eastern Orthodox hand painted & gilded icon of three saints, circa 1780. This traditional Greek Orthodox icon is painted in the Byzantine style, using egg tempera paint on a poplar wood panel. The icon depicts three saints: Saint Charalambos, a bishop and patron saint of healing. Saint Simeon the Stylite to the center, who spent 37 years living atop a column or stylos, he is seen emerging from his pillar.