Portable Triptych Icon: Adoration of the Miracle-Working Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God

Unknown artist, 1600s

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Medium: Painted wood panel within enameled brass frame
Size: Unframed: 6.2 x 6 x 0.5 cm (2 7/16 x 2 3/8 x 3/16 in.); Closed: 7.3 x 6.9 x 3.4 cm (2 7/8 x 2 11/16 x 1 5/16 in.); Open and extended: 7 x 19.1 cm (2 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
Culture: Byzantium, Russia, Moscow?, Byzantine period, 17th century
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art
Rights: CC0 — no rights reserved

This is part of a triptych icon and was probably commissioned by a lay person for private prayer and meditation. It could be folded and shut when not in use. The scene represented is the Adoration of the Miracle-Working Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God. Small portable icons such as this were common to later Russian religious practice.