ANTIQUE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX TRAVELLING ICON ENAMEL TRIPTYCH SAINTS BRASS

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ANTIQUE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX TRAVELLING ICON ENAMEL TRIPTYCH SAINTS BRASS :
$120.00

ANTIQUE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX TRAVELLING ICON ENAMEL TRIPTYCH SAINTS BRASS Holy Virgin Mary from Annunciation scene

Size 64 x 93mm.weight 104 gramsThis is an old hand made with natural traces in solving.

Worn by the great years there has been a blurring of the image of the form.

Watch out that this icon is orginal and comes from the 19th century.

Use: Such primitively manufactured sand cast brass travelling icons were mass produced in 17th -19th centuries and intended to be displayed in the homes of the Russian Orthodox believers — particularly popular among the Old Believers.History: Cast metal icons and crosses were inexpensive, durable and portable objects of veneration in Orthodox Russia. Brass crosses and icons depicting saints, Christ and the Virgin adorned every Russian family’s “beautiful corner”—the place in each home designated for spiritual devotions. In the middle of the 17th century a great split occurred in the Russian Orthodox Church over changes made to the liturgy. This resulted in large factions breaking away from the state sponsored church. Because of the oppression from the official Church and the government, a group known as the “Old Believers” favored the use of cast metal icons and set up workshops throughout the countryside devoted to the production of these religious items. Despite a decree by Peter the Great in 1723 that forbade the production and sale of cast metal icons, they continued being made until the late nineteenth century
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