icon; cast brass and enamel; depicts “Mother of God Jesus Christos”; Greek inscriptions as follows: left “Mother”, top right “of God”, lower right “Jesus Christos”; foliage and grape clusters with blue enamel found in self frame; height 11.3 cm, width 9.8 cm. Holy image associated with worship.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley), Eugen Neuhaus, Older University Collections, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Russia
Collector:
Eugen Neuhaus
Collection date:
before 1930
Person depicted:
Mary (mother of Jesus)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Icons (devotional images)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)