oil, board, chalk-plaster backing, gilding; kiot: 36 x 31.5 x 4.3 cm; icon: 29 x 24 x 2 cm; Balkan, 19th century. Kyot, wooden, inside gilded, carved frame of plastic acanthus leaves, rosettes in corners. In the center of the Icon in the clouds the Mother of God is shown, to whom Jesus Christ and God the Father place a crown on her head. God the Father, in a triangular nimbus, rests his left h...