A SILVER-GILT ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD OF TIKHVIN
MARK OF SEMEN KUZOV, MOSCOW, 1781
Rectangular, the figures realistically painted, the Christ child with his right arm raised in a blessing, the Mother of God behind him, their garments and border repoussé and chased with scrolling foliage, the upper corners with name plates, the applied halos with crown and halo, marked on halo and edge
12½ x 10¾ in. (31.8 x 27.3 cm.)
A SILVER-GILT ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD OF TIKHVIN
MARK OF SEMEN KUZOV, MOSCOW, 1781
Rectangular, the figures realistically painted, the Christ child with his right arm raised in a blessing, the Mother of God behind him, their garments and border repoussé and chased with scrolling foliage, the upper corners with name plates, the applied halos with crown and halo, marked on halo and edge
12½ x 10¾ in. (31.8 x 27.3 cm.)