Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 212:
Saint Nicholas
18th century
Copper alloy, casting
NMI 312

PROVENANCE: Svea Lindroth Bequest 1992
CONSERVATION: Considerable abrasions,
5 secondary holes for attachment
The holes make it likely that this icon
was attached to a burial cross, as was
particularly the practice in North Russia.
1 “It should be noted that no holes
are pierced in the icon itself until ra -
ther late and even then only when the
icon is nailed to the burial cross.”2

1 Rytkölä 2000, pp 181–193 passim.
2 Taalas 2000, p 105.
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