Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Sold The dresser base has corresponding

The dresser base has corresponding lozenge shaped fruitwood inlays & the drawers and doors have 'kite' shaped fruitwood inlaid escutcheons/lock-plates

the writer of one of literatures most important works

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

Many paintings by him appear in museums & galleries in Denmark

the bronze is signed and dates circa 1900

Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Sold The dresser base has correspondingA 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.