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A 19th-century travel icon. A well-known and highly regarded item. Much of the enamel remains intact. The item is in good condition. Brass, enamel; dimensions when folded: 17 x 10 cm; dimensions when unfolded: 17 x 38.5 cm.
Height x width: 16 x 13.5 cm Weight: 578.7 g Bronze casting with polychrome enamels An image of the Virgin Mary, which takes its name from the city of Smolensk. According to tradition, the icon was used to bless the streets of Constantinople by Constantine IX Monomachos on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Anna to Prince Vsevolod of Yaroslavl, and it arrived in Russia in the 11th ce...
Height × Width: 5.5 × 5.5 cm Weight: 78.6 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels. This is a theme that was already fully developed in the Byzantine tradition, but within the context of the Old Believers it acquires peculiar characteristics: in particular, the Christ Child is wrapped in swaddling bands reminiscent of funeral wrappings and is often placed in a manger resembling a sarcophagu...
Height × Width: 9.5 × 8.5 cm Weight: 174.0 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels The scene focuses on the mother, Saint Anne. The iconographic core shows Anne lying in bed, in a richly decorated interior beneath a canopy, surrounded by maidservants attending to her (bringing food or drink) and caring for the newborn. Saint Joachim is depicted apart, in the lower right corner. This icon b...
Height × width: 9.5 × 9 cm Weight: 172.0 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels The scene focuses on the mother, Saint Anne. The iconographic core shows Anne lying in bed, in a richly decorated interior beneath a canopy, surrounded by maidservants attending to her (bringing food or drink) and caring for the newborn. Saint Joachim is depicted apart, in the lower right corner. This icon be...
Height × width: 9.5 × 5 cm Weight: 56.6 g. Bronze casting and polychrome enamels The Mother of God is depicted in an orant posture with her arms raised, while bearing on her chest a clipeus containing Christ Emmanuel, a powerful symbol of the Incarnation of the Word cherished in the tradition of the Old Believers. Above the central panel is a cimasa featuring the depiction of the Old Testame...
Height × width:10.5 × 8.5 cm. Weight: 206.4 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels which commemorates divine protection during the siege of the city in 1514. This specific iconography became famous when it was painted above the Spasskaya Tower gate of the Moscow Kremlin, acquiring a meaning of state and military protection for the whole of Russia. On either side of Christ, in the lower pa...
Height × width: 9 × 7.5 cm Weight: 152.1 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels At the centre of the scene, at the foot of the Cross, the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist stand in prayer. The entire composition is enclosed by a frame of clipei, which expand the theological meaning of the work. In the upper register, at the apex of the structure, the Deesis appears again, flanked by ...
Height × width: 11.5 × 9.5 cm Weight: 365.7 g. Bronze casting and polychrome enamels An image of Mary, named after the city of Smolensk. Tradition holds that the icon was used to bless the streets of Constantinople by Constantine IX Monomachos on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Anna to Prince Vsevolod of Yaroslavl, and that it arrived in Russia in the 11th century. Vladimir II M...
Height × width: 13 × 10 cm Weight: 303.3 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels At the center enthroned is Christ Pantocrator, seated on a royal throne, holding the open Gospel and raising His hand in a gesture of blessing. At His sides, the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist are depicted standing, slightly inclined toward Him in an attitude of prayer on behalf of humanity. The proces...
Height × width: 16 × 10 cm Weight: 127.5 g. Bronze casting and polychrome enamels The work displays the canonical structure of the Russian eight-pointed cross (with three crossbars), in which the lower slanting crossbar serves as a symbolic footrest. At the center of the casting is the figure of Christ Crucified. The upper register elevates the drama to the heavenly realm with two adoring an...
Height × width: 12 × 8 cm Weight: 163.5 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels Tradition traces the origin of the cult to the miraculous rescue from a shipwreck of the son of Theodosius I, Arcadius, attributed to the intervention of the Virgin Mary. At the site where Arcadius was found, on Vatopedi Beach near Mount Athos, Patriarch Nektarios erected a sanctuary and placed the icon of the ...
Height × Width: 6 × 5 cm Weight: 59.2 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels. This icon belongs to the group of icons of the Old Believers, produced in series starting from the 17th century and characterized by a strict adherence to the canons of the Byzantine tradition. These artifacts, often made of bronze and sometimes enriched with colored enamels, were generally small in size and int...
Height × Width: 7.5 × 5.5 cm Weight: 71.1 g. Bronze casting This is a theme that was already fully developed in the Byzantine tradition, but within the context of the Old Believers it acquires peculiar characteristics: in particular, the Christ Child is wrapped in bands reminiscent of funeral wrappings and is often placed in a manger resembling a sarcophagus, while the Virgin is depicted lyi...
Height × width: 11 × 9 cm Weight: 243.4 g Bronze casting with polychrome enamels Saint Antipas was a bishop of Pergamum who suffered martyrdom under Domitian or Nero. Tradition holds that he was burned alive inside a heated bronze bull in the temple of Diana.This icon belongs to the group of icons of the Russian Old Believers, mass-produced from the 17th century onward and characterized by s...
Height x width: 12.5 × 8 cm Weight: 160.5 g. Bronze casting and polychrome enamels Tradition traces the origin of the cult to the miraculous rescue from a shipwreck of the son of Theodosius I, Arcadius, attributed to the intervention of the Virgin Mary. At the site where Arcadius was found, on Vatopedi Beach near Mount Athos, Patriarch Nektarios erected a sanctuary and placed the icon of the ...
Height × width: 6.5 × 5.5 cm Weight: 58.5 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels This is a theme that was already fully developed in the Byzantine tradition, but within the context of the Old Believers it acquires peculiar characteristics: in particular, the Christ Child is wrapped in swaddling bands reminiscent of funeral wrappings and is often placed in a manger resembling a sarcophagus...
Height × width: 14.5 × 8.5 cm Weight: 160.2 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels The icon depicts the Evangelist John, recognizable by his traditional iconographic attribute: the eagle, a symbol of his theological elevation and the depth of his Gospel. The figure is presented in the variant known as the “theologian of silence,” as the saint covers his mouth with his hands—a gestur...
Height × width: 10.5 × 9 cm Weight: 198.2 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels which commemorates divine protection during the siege of the city in 1514. This specific iconography became famous when it was frescoed above the Spasskaya Gate of the Moscow Kremlin, acquiring a meaning of state and military protection for the whole of Russia. On either side of Christ, in the lower part, ar...
Height × width: 9 × 5 cm Weight: 49.7 g Bronze casting and polychrome enamels The Mother of God is depicted in an orant posture with her arms raised, while bearing on her chest a clipeus containing Christ Emmanuel, a powerful symbol of the Incarnation of the Word cherished in the tradition of the Old Believers. Above the central panel is a cimasa featuring the depiction of the Old Testament ...
Height x width: 85 x 63 cm Tempera on panel a rare post-Byzantine icon attributable to the production of the Cretan-Venetian School or the Ionian Islands. The work is distinguished by the exceptional bilingual inscription in Latin and Greek characters placed on either side of the faces: “La Beata V. De SCOPO” and the traditional Greek initials MP ΘV (Mother of God). It represents the cele...
Height x lenght: 12 cm x 10 cm. Weight: 881.4 g Tempera on panel with riza Panel icon depicting the Virgin Eleusa according to the iconographic tradition of the Orthodox Church. The Mother of God is shown half-length with the Christ Child held close in an intimate gesture of tenderness, their faces gently pressed together and slightly inclined toward one another, emphasizing the profound emoti...
Height × Width: 13 × 9.5 cm Weight: 262.5 g Bronze casting with polychrome enamels Martyrized under Diocletian, accompanied by a series of Selected Saints. In the upper part, Christ emerges from the clouds to watch over the scene. This icon belongs to the group of Russian Old Believer icons, produced in series from the 17th century onward and characterized by a strict adherence to the canons...
Height × Width: 11 × 15 cm Weight: 159.7 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels The central panel presents a variant of the traditional Hodegetria type, in which the Child, depicted with the features of a small adult, turns his gaze upward toward the instruments of the Passion, expressing full awareness of his salvific destiny. This iconography blends Greek solemnity with the tenderness o...
Height × Width: 28 × 24 cm Weight: 2,257 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels At the center of the scene, Mary is laid out on a tall bier. Behind the funeral bed stands Christ, who holds in his arms a small figure wrapped in white swaddling clothes, representing the pure soul of the Virgin, reborn into new life in heaven. This icon belongs to the group of Russian Old Believers’ icons...
Height × width: 14.5 × 12.5 cm Weight: 353 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels housed within an elegant frame composed of clipei, the upper section of which contains the representation of the Deesis, flanked by the hierarchies of the Archangels and the hieratic figures of Selected Saints. The Madonna of Kazan became a symbol of protection, particularly during periods of war and natural...
Dimension 41 x 31 cm tempera on panel egg tempera on panel depicting Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, one of the most venerated saints of the Orthodox tradition, represented frontally according to the established Byzantine iconographic canon. The saint is portrayed half-length with a solemn yet deeply benevolent expression, characterized by a broad forehead, large contemplative eyes, a slender...
Height × Width: 7 × 5 cm Weight: 30.2 g. Bronze casting This is a theme that was already fully developed in the Byzantine tradition, but within the context of the Old Believers it acquires peculiar characteristics: in particular, the Christ Child is wrapped in bands reminiscent of funeral wrappings and is often placed in a manger resembling a sarcophagus, while the Virgin is depicted lying d...
Height × Width:17 × 40 cm Weight: 1,295 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels This finely crafted object is an outstanding example of the metalwork produced by the Old Believers. It takes the form of a portable four-leaf folding icon (polyptych). Such objects, generally of small dimensions, were intended for private devotion. Their portability allowed them to be carried with ease and, wh...
Height × Width: 14.5 × 9 cm Weight: 161.8 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels Tradition traces the origin of the cult to the miraculous rescue from a shipwreck of Arcadius, attributed to the intervention of the Virgin Mary. At the site where Arcadius was found, on Vatopedi Beach near Mount Athos, Patriarch Nektarios erected a sanctuary and placed the icon of the Otrada, which served as...
Height × width: 29 × 24 cm Weight: 2509 g. Bronze casting and polychrome enamels At the center of the scene, Mary is laid out on a tall bier. Behind the funeral bed stands Christ, who holds in his arms a small figure wrapped in white swaddling clothes, representing the pure soul of the Virgin, reborn into new life in heaven. This icon belongs to the group of Russian Old Believers’ icons, m...
Height × width: 9 × 7.5 cm Weight: 142.6 g. Cast bronze with polychrome enamels and Selected Saints. These objects, often made of bronze and sometimes enriched with colored enamels, were generally small in size and intended for private devotion. Their portability made them easy to carry and, if necessary, to conceal, thus meeting the religious needs of a community that, after the schism kno...
Height × Width: 5.5 × 5 cm Weight: 76.3 g Bronze casting with polychrome enamels This icon belongs to the group of Russian Old Believer icons, produced in series from the 17th century onward and characterized by a strict adherence to the canons of the Byzantine tradition. These artifacts, often made of bronze and sometimes enriched with colored enamels, were generally small in size and inten...
Height × Width: 17.5 × 41 cm Weight: 1,341.2 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels This artifact, a remarkable example of Old Believers’ metalwork, takes the form of a portable polyptych with four wings. These objects, generally small in size, were intended for private devotion. Their portability made them easy to carry and, if necessary, to conceal, thus meeting the religious needs of...
Height × Width: 13 × 11 cm Weight: 421.6 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels This icon belongs to the group of Russian Old Believer icons, produced in series from the 17th century onwards and characterised by a strict adherence to the canons of Byzantine tradition. Such objects, often made of bronze and sometimes enriched with coloured enamels, were generally small in size and intended...
Height × Width: 28.5 × 24 cm Weight: 2,370 g. Bronze casting At the center of the scene, the Virgin Mary lies on a high catafalque. Behind the funeral bed stands Christ, holding in His arms a small figure wrapped in white swaddling clothes, representing the pure soul of the Virgin, born to new life in heaven. Around the bed gather the twelve apostles, divided into two groups. In the foregrou...
Height × width: 10.5 × 9 cm Weight: 271.1 g. Bronze casting and polychrome enamels One of the most venerated icons in Russia, it belongs to the Hodegetria iconographic type. Although it resembles other images of the Virgin and Child, the Tikhvin icon has a unique detail: the position of the Child, whose legs are crossed, with the sole of the right foot turned toward the viewer (a feature tha...
Height × width: 12 × 10 cm Weight: 306.7 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels which commemorates divine protection during the siege of the city in 1514. This specific iconography became famous when it was painted above the Spasskaya Tower gate of the Moscow Kremlin, acquiring a meaning of state and military protection for the whole of Russia. On either side of Christ, in the lower part...
Height × Width: 29 × 24 cm Weight: 2,170 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels At the center of the scene, the Virgin Mary lies on a high catafalque. Behind the funeral bed stands Christ, holding in His arms a small figure wrapped in white swaddling clothes, representing the pure soul of the Virgin, born to new life in heaven. Around the bed gather the twelve apostles, divided into two g...
Height × Width: 26.5 × 23.5 cm Weight: 1,820.3 g Bronze casting with polychrome enamels An image of the Virgin Mary, which takes its name from the city of Smolensk. Tradition holds that the icon was used to bless the streets of Constantinople by Constantine IX Monomachos on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Anna to Prince Vsevolod of Yaroslavl, and that it arrived in Russia in the...
Height × width: 11 × 9 cm Weight: 352.3 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels An image of Mary, named after the city of Smolensk. Tradition holds that the icon was used to bless the streets of Constantinople by Constantine IX Monomachos on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Anna to Prince Vsevolod of Yaroslavl, and that it arrived in Russia in the 11th century. Vladimir II Mono...
Height × width: 11.5 × 7.5 cm Weight: 173.0 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels Tradition traces the origin of the cult to the miraculous rescue from a shipwreck of the son of Theodosius I, Arcadius, attributed to the intervention of the Virgin Mary. At the site where Arcadius was found, on Vatopedi Beach near Mount Athos, Patriarch Nektarios erected a sanctuary and placed the icon of ...
Height × Width: 18.5 × 41.5 cm Weight: 1244.7 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels This artifact, a remarkable example of Old Believers’ metalwork, takes the form of a portable polyptych with four wings. These objects, generally small in size, were intended for private devotion. Their portability made them easy to carry and, if necessary, to conceal, thus meeting the religious needs o...
Height × width: 12 × 6 cm Weight: 57.6 g. Bronze casting Accompanied at the bottom by the scene of the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, at the top by the Hospitality of Abraham, and on the sides by four other figures, likely the Virgin Mary, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, and the centurion Longinus. The surface of the object appears particularly polished, as the Old Believers considered ...
Height x width: 26.5 x 22 cm Weight: 1638 g. Tempera on panel with silver riza The work faithfully reproduces the iconography of the Our Lady of Kazan, historically regarded as the supreme spiritual palladium of the Russian nation and a symbol of its identity in times of greatest military crisis. The composition originates from the legendary discovery of the icon in 1579 among the ashes of a f...
Height × width: 28.5 × 24 cm Weight: 1331 g. Tempera on panel with silver riza The iconographic composition, one of the most venerated in the Russian Orthodox tradition, depicts the Virgin represented half-length, with her head slightly inclined toward the Christ Child. The latter is portrayed standing frontally, raising his right hand in a gesture of blessing, while the figure of the Virgin...
Height × Width: 18 × 14 cm Weight: 1058 g. Bronze casting with enamel The scene, set against a blue background, is framed by a dense vine scroll containing numerous clipei: at the apex is depicted the Deesis, with Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist, while the medallions below host a series of saints forming a protective celestial hierarchy. This icon, of considerab...
Height × Width: 11 × 9.6 cm Weight: 206.7 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels This icon belongs to the group of Russian Old Believer icons, produced in series from the 17th century onward and characterized by a strict adherence to the canons of the Byzantine tradition. These artifacts, often made of bronze and sometimes enriched with colored enamels, were generally small in size and in...
Dimensions: Height × width: 13.5 × 11 cm Weight: 358.3 g Bronze casting with polychrome enamel inlays At the center enthroned is Christ Pantocrator, seated on a royal throne, holding the open Gospel and raising His hand in a gesture of blessing. At His sides, the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist are depicted standing, slightly inclined toward Him in an attitude of prayer on behalf of h...
Height × width: 7 × 5 cm Weight: 50.4 g. Bronze casting This icon belongs to the group of Russian Old Believer icons, produced in series from the 17th century onward and characterized by an exceptional care in preserving Byzantine canons, often executed in bronze and enriched with colored enamels. Small in size, the object was intended for private devotion; easily portable and concealable, i...
Height × width: 8 × 5.5 cm. Weight: 59.4 g. Bronze casting This is a theme that was already fully developed in the Byzantine tradition, but within the context of the Old Believers it acquires peculiar characteristics: in particular, the Christ Child is wrapped in swaddling bands reminiscent of funeral wrappings and is often placed in a manger resembling a sarcophagus, while the Virgin is dep...
Height × width: 6 × 4 cm Weight: 22.6 g. Bronze casting This icon belongs to the group of icons of the Old Believers, produced in series starting from the 17th century and characterized by a strict adherence to the canons of the Byzantine tradition. These artifacts, often made of bronze and sometimes enriched with colored enamels, were generally small in size and intended for private devotio...
Height × Width: 10.5 × 9 cm Weight: 281.4 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels set within a frame. At the center of the composition is the crucified Christ, the focal point of the salvific scene, while the frame develops an expanded Deesis, in which the Virgin and Saint John the Baptist intercede on either side of the divine Judge. At the apex and center of the structure, as a seal of d...
Height × width: 10 × 9 cm Weight: 233.3 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels Saint Antipas was a bishop of Pergamum who suffered martyrdom under Domitian or Nero. Tradition holds that he was burned alive inside a heated bronze bull in the temple of Diana.This icon belongs to the group of icons of the Russian Old Believers, mass-produced from the 17th century onward and characterized by ...
Height × Width: 5 × 4.5 cm Weight: 32.2 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels At the center of the scene, the Virgin Mary lies on a high catafalque. Behind the funeral bed stands Christ, holding in His arms a small figure wrapped in white swaddling clothes, representing the pure soul of the Virgin, born to new life in heaven. Around the bed gather the twelve apostles, divided into two g...
Height x width: 36 x 31 cm Weight: 505 gr. Tempera on panel One of the most solemn and significant images of the Eastern Christian iconographic tradition. The Greek term *Pantocrator* (Παντοκράτωρ) means “Almighty” or “He who governs all things” and identifies Christ as the Lord of the Universe, Judge, and Savior of humanity. The iconography derives from the Byzantine tradi...
Height × width: 6 × 16 cm Weight: 194.7 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels Typical of the production of the Russian Old Believers between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this portable triptych embodies a concise expression of the faith and resilience of a community persecuted in the aftermath of the schism known as the Raskol. The devotional sequence begins with the veneratio...
Height x width: 31 x 25.5 cm tempera on panel Icon painted on a wooden panel depicting the Descent into Hades (Anastasis), traditionally regarded in the Orthodox Church as the Resurrection of Christ, one of the most important and solemn representations of the Paschal cycle. The composition portrays the triumphant Christ who, following the Crucifixion, descends into the realm of the dead to lib...
Russian icon depicting Saints Peter and Paul, the Apostles - late 19th century (circa 1880-1900)
360 EUR
Height x width: 20 x 18 cm Tempera on panel con painted on a wooden panel depicting the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, regarded as two of the foremost founders of the Christian Church and the principal pillars of the faith according to the Orthodox tradition. The composition presents the two apostles facing one another in a perfectly balanced arrangement, positioned symmetrically on either side...
Height x width: 9 x 10 cm Cast bronze with polychrome enamels The object is a portable triptych with three hinged leaves, cast in bronze, characteristic of the Russian metalworking production of the Old Believers. The central leaf depicts the iconography of the Mother of God of Consolation, a devotion whose origins, according to tradition, are linked to the miraculous rescue from a shipwreck o...
Height × width: 12.5 × 9 cm Weight: 133.5 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels Tradition traces the origin of the cult to the miraculous rescue from a shipwreck of the son of Theodosius I, Arcadius, attributed to the intervention of the Virgin Mary. At the site where Arcadius was found, on Vatopedi Beach near Mount Athos, Patriarch Nektarios erected a sanctuary and placed the icon of th...
Height x width: 38 x 32 cm Weight: 1172 g. Tempera on panel This specific type of object, structured around a central focal point and divided into compartments, was historically created to meet the needs of private and domestic devotion: it allowed families to gather within a single panel the most venerated miraculous images and patron saints, providing comprehensive spiritual protection for t...
Height × Width: 15 × 9.5 cm Weight: 404.2 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels Tradition traces the origin of the cult to the miraculous rescue from a shipwreck of the son of Theodosius I, Arcadius, attributed to the intervention of the Virgin Mary. At the site where Arcadius was found, on Vatopedi Beach near Mount Athos, Patriarch Nektarios erected a sanctuary and placed the icon of th...
Height × width: 7 × 4.5 cm Weight: 64.1 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels The Mother of God is depicted in an attitude of prayer, with her arms raised, while before her, upon her breast, appears the image of Christ Emmanuel, a powerful symbol of the Incarnation of the Word, dear to the tradition of the Old Believers. In the spaces formed between the sides of the square framing the Vi...