Pendant with Saint Barbara

Creator

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Culture

Russian, Orthodox

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

1 3/8 in.

Credit Line

Bequest of David P. Harris ('46), 2020

Accession Number

2020.167

Provenance

Purchased from Iconostas, London, in 1989.

References

Brad Hostetler, with Ani Parnagian, "From Private to Public: The Collection of David P. Harris," in Ethiopian Objects in the Blick-Harris Study Collection: Art, Context, and the Persistence of Form, eds. Brad Hostetler, and Lynn Jones, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture 8, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 5–25. https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol8/iss1/1/

Description

This two-sided silver icon shows St. Barbara on the obverse and the Dormition on the reverse. St. Barbara appears half-figure, holding a cross in her right hand and a sword in her left. The background contains a repeated diamond figure and, on the left, a tower. On the left border is stamped "84," on the right the maker's initials, N.R. St. Barbara's name in Russian appears at the top. The Dormition of the reverse appears against the diamond-figured background, the Russian word for Dormition appearing at the bottom.