Icon - Anastasis, Feast day icon - Wood






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Description from the seller
Icon of the Polnitsa type or of the "Great Feasts" (Dvemadtsatye Prazdniki).
Central Panel: Anastasis / Resurrection of Christ and Descent into Hell (Voskreshenie Khristovo).
Peripheral Panels (Kлейма - Klejma): Scenes from the New Testament / Feasts. At the bottom the Trinity of the Old Testament (Svyataya Troitsa) and the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Vozdvizhenie Khrsta Gospodnya) are clearly distinguished.
Inscriptions: Text in ecclesiastical Slavonic on the lower borders and in the miniatures. On the back there are pencil/ink inscriptions in Cyrillic (ownership or inventory annotations).
Technique and Materials: Tempera on wooden panel with gold background/metal leaf. Panel with rear crossbars (Sponki) mortised in.
Estimated era: 19th Century (circa 1850–1900), Russian Empire.
Main photo: The full icon on the front, well illuminated (avoid excessive reflections).
Complete back: The photo showing the wooden panel and the crossbars (sponki).
Back details: A close-up clearly legible of the Cyrillic writings/signatures on the back (as in the third photo).
Scene details: Close-ups of the miniatures and the center (as in the second photo).
Conditions and defects: Clearly shows the vertical crack, color losses on the upper/gilded edge and the woodworm holes (already present on the back) for maximum transparency.
Icon of the Polnitsa type or of the "Great Feasts" (Dvemadtsatye Prazdniki).
Central Panel: Anastasis / Resurrection of Christ and Descent into Hell (Voskreshenie Khristovo).
Peripheral Panels (Kлейма - Klejma): Scenes from the New Testament / Feasts. At the bottom the Trinity of the Old Testament (Svyataya Troitsa) and the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Vozdvizhenie Khrsta Gospodnya) are clearly distinguished.
Inscriptions: Text in ecclesiastical Slavonic on the lower borders and in the miniatures. On the back there are pencil/ink inscriptions in Cyrillic (ownership or inventory annotations).
Technique and Materials: Tempera on wooden panel with gold background/metal leaf. Panel with rear crossbars (Sponki) mortised in.
Estimated era: 19th Century (circa 1850–1900), Russian Empire.
Main photo: The full icon on the front, well illuminated (avoid excessive reflections).
Complete back: The photo showing the wooden panel and the crossbars (sponki).
Back details: A close-up clearly legible of the Cyrillic writings/signatures on the back (as in the third photo).
Scene details: Close-ups of the miniatures and the center (as in the second photo).
Conditions and defects: Clearly shows the vertical crack, color losses on the upper/gilded edge and the woodworm holes (already present on the back) for maximum transparency.
