Russia, Imperial. A Framed Icon Of Our Lady Of The Sign Of Novgorod, C.1900 Auction Archive with leather strap and buckle)

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Russia, Imperial. A Framed Icon Of Our Lady Of The Sign Of Novgorod, C.1900 Auction Archive with leather strap and buckle)A framed and extremely well preserved icon of Our Lady of the Sign of Novgorod. Constructed of a gessoed and tooled wooden base with egg tempera, the obverse of the icon features a gilded base with an arabesque border, topped at the corners by black discs bearing Greek characters MP Y (Mother of God), surrounding a hand painted image of the Theotokos with hands raised in prayer at the moment of the Annunciation, cloaked in a red veil with a blue