Icon - Our Lady of Tikhvin, in a wrapper

tempera on board, brass cover, with silver elements and inlays of imitation stones; 89.5 x 70 cm.
Russia, 19th century.
Image of Mary with Child, in iconographic Hodegetria type. Cover stamped in brass plate, large nimbus around the head of the Mother of God decorated with circular, convex silver overlays (engraved in the motif of a multi-pointed star and unillustrated) and camouflaged with imitation gemstones. In the upper corners of the image and on the line of the nimbus - superimposed silver plates with Cyrillic explanations. Preservation condition: cracks in the sheet in several places.