at the centre of a rocky landscape the Mother of God in a reclining position at the entrance of a cave in front of the Christ Child lying in a manger, with an ass and a mule bending over Him, above two angels, their hands covered in reverence, to the left the three Magi, to the right a shepherd playing a flute, in the lower left corner the meeting of Joseph with the aged shepherd, in the lower right corner the midwife bathing the Christ Child

Paul M. Fekula Collection, New York, USA

F. Dö😼;r🌠ling Auktionen, Hamburg, 2 November 1985, lot 163

The border and background stripped to the levkas, a vertcial crack running from top to bottom, some minor retouching to the panel especially along the vertical crack
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The present lot and the following 3 lots all come from the same Feastday row of an iconostasis.