Travel Icon - Syntax - Deesis [Advocacy].

brass, chiselled casting; dimensions: folded: 13.5 x 12.5 cm; unfolded: 13.5 x 36 cm.
Russia, 19th century.
Triptych of three square plates joined by hinges. The top with the scene of the Crucifixion framed in a circular frame - a cross without the figure of Christ against the background of a view of Jerusalem, with the tomb of Adam marked with a skull; in the corners - symbols of the 4 Evangelists. When unfolded - in the middle - the image of Christ Pantocrator in a cross nimbus, blessing with his right hand, in his left holding an open Book. On the left wing of the triptych - Mother of God Paraklesis with an unfolded scroll containing petitions for mercy to sinful people; on the right - St. John the Baptist Prodromos - as the winged Angel of the Desert; he exhorts to repentance and points to the Child Savior held on his chest in the Eucharistic chalice. Syntax quarters banded with a bordure with floral vicia.