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Object: Madonna & Child - Loving Kindness
Description: Russian hand painted and lacquered box. Copy of a famous Icon in Russia. The painting is on the hinged lid of a black lacquered wood box.
Comments: This miniature work of art is hand made and painted. Nimbus (halo) is in gold foil and the whole painting is protected with a clear, polished lacquer coating.
Maker: Paleh School - Russia
Age: 2000
Size: 7.5cm h x 5.5cm w
Object: Madonna & Child 
Description: Russian hand painted and lacquered box. Copy of a famous Icon in Russia. The painting is on the hinged lid of a black lacquered wood box.
Comments: This miniature work of art is hand made and painted. Nimbus (halo) is in gold foil and the whole painting is protected with a clear, polished lacquer coating.
Maker: Paleh School - Russia
Age: 2000
Size: 5.4cm h x 4.0cm w
Object: Madonna & Child - Loving Kindness
Description: These Greek icons are in the style developed in the Eastern Roman Empire, the capital of which was Byzantium (Constantinople, later Istanbul) by the early Christian Church. The Icon was and is regarded as a window onto the Divine and is used as an aid to worship. This subject of Madonna and Child conveys Loving Kindness and the power of a mother's love.
Comments: This icon is mass produced in Greece by a screen printing process requiring up to 50 separate screens onto canvas after which the picture is mounted with glue onto a wood block. The paints used are apparently produced in the traditional manner of tempera with egg as a binder. The background is gold leaf.
Maker: Unknown
Age: 1990's
Size: 17.0 cm h x 11.5 cm w
Object: St. George and the Dragon
Description: St. George (patron saint of England and also Moscow) represent the inner warfare to be waged against sin and ignorance. He is generally depicted in Icons as a soldier of late Roman empire, in lamellar armour. The legend of St. George may well have arisen from this period.
Comments: This icon is mass produced in Greece by a screen printing process requiring up to 50 separate screens onto canvas after which the picture is mounted with glue onto a wood block. The paints used are apparently produced in the traditional manner of tempera with egg as a binder. The back ground is gold leaf.
Maker: Unknown
Age: 1990's
Size: 15.0 cm h x 11.0 cm w
Object: St. Peter 
Description: This saint is depicted holding a holy scripture. Icons are frequently painted with little or no perspective. The aim was not to portray reality as it appears to the senses but as it appears to the heart or inner spirituality.
Comments: This icon is mass produced in Greece by a screen printing process requiring up to 50 separate screens onto canvas after which the picture is mounted with glue onto a wood block. The paints used are apparently produced in the traditional manner of tempera with egg as a binder. The back ground is gold leaf.
Maker: Unknown
Age: 1990's
Size: 8.0 cm h x 6.0 cm w

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