icon; wood; painted; subjects, left to right: the holy Avramiy (Abraham), right: the holy martyr Praskoviya; gold ground; minor nick in the lower left corner; probably late 17th century; 1600-1700 AD. Cost $200.00.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley), Eugen Neuhaus, Older University Collections, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Russia
Collector:
Eugen Neuhaus
Collection date:
before 1930
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Icons (devotional images)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Production date:
1600-1700
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)