Icon on panel, depicting the Mother of God enthroned with the Child, surrounded by a rich decoration of gilded foliage and a heavenly court of angels. The surround is composed of registers of saints, prophets and hagiographic scenes, in the iconography characteristic of the Vetka workshop, a major centre of the Old Believers' tradition in the 19th century. H. 43.5 x 32.5 cm Condition: cracks and restorations, missing corners. As is