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Miniature Icon, Fairy Castle

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Miniature Icon, Fairy Castle

Category

Art, Architecture, and Design

Classification

CHENHALL - Communication Objects - Ceremonial Objects - Religious Objects - Symbol, Religious - Icon
CHENHALL - Communication Objects - Arts - Visual Arts - Sculpture - Miniature

Object Origin
Date Created:

1928-1935

Physical Characteristics

Object Description: Miniature icon-style depiction of the Virgin Mary. Figure is wearing light blue headscarf, and cloak, looking towards viewer's bottom left corner. Background is gold with six (6) green stones applied on top, one in each corner and one in the center of each side edge. One (1) large clear gemstone at center of chest with three (3) on each side creating a bow shape. Additional gemstones around head create a halo shape.

Materials:

gold

gemstones

Marks: "Crouch" on back

Measurements: Object:
    Height: 2 in, Width: 1.5 in, Depth: 0.125 in
    Weight: 0.046 lbs

Credit

Gift of Colleen Moore, 49.129.193

Display Status

On Exhibit

Miniature Icon, Fairy Castle

About: Miniature Icon, Fairy Castle

About: Miniature Icon, Fairy Castle

Inside the Chapel of the Fairy Castle is a Russian icon that depicts of the Virgin Mary. It is dated from before the Russian Revolution of 1917. The large stone and smaller stones over Mary’s heart, the twelve diamonds set in a halo over Mary’s head, and the six green stones in the gold frame came from a brooch Colleen Moore found in an antique store. The Chapel of the Fairy Castle is decorated throughout with inlaid ivory embellished with symbolic events of the Old Testament, designed by Bayard de Volo. In the center of the design are the Ten Commandments hewn into the stone tablets. The gold and ivory Chapel organ was carved in Italy and has over a hundred keys, each barely a sixteenth of an inch wide, and it even plays music through an electrical system via remote control. Finally, the ceiling is decorated from the illuminations of the Book of Kells, a medieval illuminated manuscript preserved in Dublin, Ireland.

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