Icon - Wood, sheet metal

Icon on a plaque – Saint Bishop (hierarch)
Russia, late 19th / early 20th century
Chromolithography on metal, wooden frame.

The item up for auction is an icon on a metal plate, depicting a standing figure of a saint bishop (hierarch) in richly adorned liturgical vestments, with a raised hand in a blessing gesture and a pastoral staff in the left hand.

The icon was produced using chromolithography applied to a metal plate, characteristic of mass-produced icons in Russia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Such objects were widely used as household devotional icons.

The figure of a saint is depicted frontally, against the backdrop of architectural flooring, with a clearly defined nimbus and insignia of ecclesiastical authority.

An object embedded in the original wooden arm.

Dimensions: approx. 17.6 × 14.3 cm
Material: printed sheet metal, wooden frame
Technique: chromolithography on metal
Dating: late 19th / early 20th century.
Origin: Russia

Condition: from average to good; visible cracking, wear, losses of the pictorial layer, soiling and signs of aging, in keeping with the character of the object. No deformation of the metal sheet.