Hodigitria or "She Who Shows the Way" Mother of God Russian Orthodox Icon. The icon's thin film metallic-like surface is actually flat, even though it appears to have a raised silver riza covering the icon. Amazingly there is actually no silver at all on this icon.

Size: 

#69 - S (2½" x 3" on ½" wood).  

Icons manufactured by a Russian supplier using their proprietary process of applying successive layers of color and metallic-like patterns resulting in a brilliant, detailed, and nearly three dimensional appearance.

Icon inscriptions in Church Slavonic.