Four- leaves traveling icon 

Four- leaves traveling icon with Crests , cast brass with blue and white enamel , about 1800.
Each leaf is a rectangle divided into quadrants and surmounted with a raised, ogee-arch , crest. Attached by piano hinges, leaves close over one another from both ends. Each of twenty reserves contains numerous figures, usually in a landscape. Lettering crests from PR and numbering each set of quadrants clockwise from the upper PR , iconographic subjects are as follows:

A The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
1. The Annunciation
2.The Nativity of Jesus Christ
3.Entrance of the Mother of God into the Temple
4.The Birth of the Mother of God

B. The New Testament Trinity
1.The Meeting in the Temple
2.The Baptism of Jesus Christ
3.The Entrance into Jerusalem
4.The Transfiguration of Jesus

C. Exaltation of the Cross
1.The Resurrection
2.The Ascension
3.Dormision of the Mother of God
4.The Old Testament Trinity

D. The Praise of the Mother of God
1.The Tikhvin. Mother of God with SS. Alexander and Cyril
2. The Vladimir Mother of God with SS. Maxim and Basil
3. Mother of God of the Sign with SS. Anthony and Leonty
4. Smolensk Mother of God with SS. Anthony and Theodosius

Item IM 139    circa 1800
Size- 14" x 6 1/4"     Price -$750.00

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