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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.
A beautiful travel icon from the early 20th century, set in a silver frame crafted by a Moscow goldsmith. Condition: good +/very good -. Silver, tempera on wood, dimensions 4 x 5.15 cm.
A beautiful travel icon depicting St. Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow. Set in a silver frame from 1858. The item is in very good condition. Tempera on wood, silver; dimensions 5.7 x 7.7 cm.
A beautiful home icon set in a silver frame, crafted by Alexei Spiridonov of Moscow. Condition: good +/very good -. Silver, tempera on wood, dimensions 4.15 x 5.25 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: 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: 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...
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 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: 10.5 × 28 cm Weight: 435.4 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels In the central panel appears the Pantocrator, while in the side panels the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist are depicted in an attitude of intercession, according to the traditional scheme. In this triptych, however, the Baptist is portrayed in the garments of the “Angel of the Desert,” an Eastern ...
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...
Tempera on panel, with brass frame; 18 x 15 cm Starting price 400 Estimate: 1,000–1,200; inquire about this item
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: 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: 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: 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...
Russian icon depicting the Mother of God of Vladimir (Vladimirskaya) with a riza - 19th century
130 EUR
Height x width: 33 x 27.5 cm. Tempera on panel with riza The icon presents one of the most venerated images in Orthodox Christianity: the Mother of God of Vladimir (Vladimirskaja), a sublime expression of the Eleusa (Tenderness) iconographic type. The Infant Jesus is portrayed on the Virgin's right arm, with his face tenderly pressed against his Mother's and his left arm wrapped around her nec...
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 x width: 43 x 34.5 cm Tempera on panel Important icon on panel depicting the Mother of God of the Burning Bush (Neopalimaya Kupina), one of the most elaborate and symbolically complex Marian images of the Russian Orthodox tradition, in which the Virgin is celebrated as the prefiguration of the Incarnation and as a powerful protectress against fire, calamities, and every form of danger. ...
NIK. FED. STRULEV, Russian Icon depicting Christ Pantocrator with a silver riza - Moskow, 1886
150 EUR
Height x Width x Depth: 22.5 x 17.5 x 3 cm Weight: 422 g. Tempera on panel with silver riza The work depicts Christ Pantocrator according to the iconographic tradition of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine art. Christ is represented frontally, half-length, with a solemn expression and a direct gaze engaging the viewer, emphasizing His role as Judge and Sovereign of the Universe. His right hand is ra...
Height x width: 45 x 37,5 cm Tempera on panel The subject depicted is the Prophet Elijah, one of the most venerated saints in Russia since the Christianization in the 10th century. The scene presents several episodes from the prophet’s life, drawn from the Old Testament and integrated into a single continuous landscape, in which the elements coexist without separate frames, unlike earlier By...
Height × Width: 37.5 × 22.5 cm Weight: 1852.3 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels The artwork features the canonical structure of the Russian eight-pointed cross, with three crossbeams, where the slanted lower arm serves as a symbolic suppedaneum. At the center is the depiction of the Crucifixion, while the upper section features the dove of the Holy Spirit, flanked by two flying angel...
Height x width: 30,5 x 25,5 cm Tempera on panel with metal riza Panel icon depicting the Virgin Hodegetria according to the iconographic tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Mother of God is shown half-length with the Christ Child seated on her left arm, while with her right hand she indicates the Son as the “way of salvation,” following the traditional Byzantine-derived iconograp...
Russian icon depicting the Protection of the Mother of God - late 19th century (circa 1880-1900)
600 EUR
Height x width: 53 x 47 cm Tempera on panel Icon on a wooden panel depicting the Protection of the Mother of God (Pokrov Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy), one of the most solemn and theologically significant subjects in the Russian Orthodox tradition. The composition illustrates the celebrated miracle that took place in the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople during the tenth century, when the Virgi...
Height × width: 15.5 × 10 cm Weight: 355 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 x width x depth: 26.8 x 24 x 2.4 cm. Tempera on panel Panel icon depicting the Holy Trinity according to the iconography of the Orthodox tradition. At the center of the composition are the figures of the Father and the Son, seated side by side on either side of the globe of the earth, a symbol of universal dominion and creation. The Son is represented according to the customary Christol...
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: 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 x width: 17.5 x 40 cm Weight: 1290.6 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 a ...
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 x depth: 21.5 x 18.5 x 2.5 cm. Total weight: 562 g weight without riza: 381 g. Tempera on panel with silver riza he icon depicts a half-length portrait of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in a frontal pose, according to the canons of traditional Russian sacred painting. The Saint wears episcopal vestments, among which the omophorion decorated with large dark crosses stands out; h...
Height × Width: 10 × 14 cm Weight: 167.8 g. Bronze casting Triptychs of this type were particularly common among the Old Believers. Such artifacts, 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 commu...
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: 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: 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 x width: 23,5 x 18 cm tempera on panel with gilded riza The icon on panel depicts Saint George the Great Martyr in the episode of his victory over the dragon, one of the most widespread and venerated subjects in the Orthodox tradition. The saint is portrayed on horseback, charging forward as he pierces the dragon with a long lance. The white horse, depicted in full motion, enhances the ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 × 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: 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 × 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: 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: 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 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: 4 × 5.5 cm. Weight: 27.7 g. Bronze casting Intended for private devotion, this object can be attributed to the production of the Russian Old Believers from the seventeenth century onward. It features a structure composed of two hinged panels, conceived as a small portable altar. The principal panel is occupied by a Deesis, depicting Christ enthroned and flanked by the Virgin...
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 × 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...
High x Length 12 cm x 10,5 cm Weight: 605.4 g. Tempera on panel one of the most beloved and venerated mystics and ascetics of modern Russia. The Saint is portrayed half-length, oriented three-quarters to the left in an attitude of profound and submissive prayer. The facial features are rendered with extreme pictorial fineness: the physiognomy is characterized by a short, thick hoary beard, whi...
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...
A fragment of a travel icon. Bronze, dimensions 17.5 x 10.5 cm.
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: 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 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: 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: 10 × 9 cm Weight: 223.2 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels As well as being one of the most complex and symbolic images in Orthodox iconography, rich in biblical and theological references, the icon is based on the miracle described in the Book of Exodus, in which Moses sees a bush that burns without being consumed. In Christian tradition, this is a symbol of the Virgi...
Height × width: 11 × 9.5 cm Weight: 295 g. Bronze casting with polychrome enamels. In the scene of the Hospitality of Abraham. The narrative originally represents the visit of the angels to Abraham but is reinterpreted symbolically as a Old Testament representation of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). The most famous example is Andrei Rublev’s Trinity, created around 1422 and pre...
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 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: 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...