19th century AD. A rectangular icon painted in tempera on a wooden panel with slotted mounting bars to the reverse; gold border with red and black edging, calligraphic Cyrillic title; image of two nimbate parents standing barefoot in an opulent room, seven female children in white baptismal(?) robes before them and an eighth nimbate in a red mantle; facing a bearded nimbate cleric with red cape standing on a dais. See Weizmann, K. et al. The Icon, New York, 1982. 2.8 kg, 44.5cm (17 1/2"). From the private collection of a Croatian professor; acquired on the European art market. [No Reserve]