19th century AD. A rectangular wooden icon with mounting slots to the reverse; linear frame with four standing nimbate figures in clerical robes(?), central panel with ten robed nimbate figures witnessing Archangel Michael preparing to strike downwards with a fiery staff held in the extended right hand, chain with scales(?) in the left hand; two inset icons of Mary and Infant Jesus above with Cyrillic legend. See Weizmann, K. et al. The Icon, New York, 1982. 4.5 kg, 53 x 41.5cm (21 x 16 1/4"). From a London collection; acquired from Paris, France, in the 1980s.