Russian gilded silver paten (diskos), circa 1700. The border with three cartouches inscribed in vyaz script: Se agnets Bozhii, vzemlyali grekhi vsego mira (Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world). The center with the Christ Child represented cradled in a chalice with the Holy Spirit descending from the Lord Sabaoth above, flanked with standing angels holding liturgical fans (ripidy). The sides of the heavy, six-sided foot gilded & engraved; the Evangelist Matthew is flanked by panels with seraphim & cherubim, the remaining three panels engraved with symbols of the Evangelists: Mark is represented as a winged lion, Luke as a winged bull, & John as a winged eagle. Apparently unmarked. Weight: 527 grams. Dia. 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm). H. 3 in. (7.6 cm).

For a 1697 paten with symbols of the Evangelists together with seraphim & cherubim on the foot in the Kremlin Museum’s collection of liturgical silver, see Russkoe serebro XIV-nachala XX veka iz fondov Gosudarstvennykh muzeev Moskovoskogo Kremlia.Russian Silver of the Fourteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries from the Moscow Kremlin Reserves,Moscow, 1984,no. 30, pages 42, 216 & 217.