18th century AD. A bifacial icon framed by a border of consecutive triangles: the upper band with Saint George (Bet Gorgis) killing the dragon with a cross-staff spear (stravros,) the saint dressed in heavily padded garments, halo around his head; beneath the saint, in the lower band, the princess saved from the dragon (Birutawit); on the small frame over the upper band the lion-cherubim, symbol of Saint Mark; on the other the facing Virgin Mary (the Mother of God) flanked by the angels Michael and Gabriel, another lion-cherubim in the upper register; the icon is decorated with geometric motifs. See Chojnacki, S., 'Notes on Art in Ethiopia in the 16th Century: an Enquiry into the Unknown Author(s)' in: Journal of Ethiopian Studies, vol. 9, no. 2 (July 1971), pp.21-97.275 grams, 13cm (5"). Property of an Austrian private collector since the 1970s.