16th century AD. A double-sided portable icon in an olive wood case, roughly square in shape with geometric carvings to the sides; one principal face carved with a cross within a lozengiform border, cross to each corner, geometric borders around, the panel opening onto a polychrome painted panel depicting the Nativity, with the Archangels Gabriel and Michael escorting the Mother of God and the Divine Child and Saint George on horseback; the second principal face carved with an X composed of crosses and hatched squares, opening to a painting of the crucifixion of Christ, flanked by the Virgin Mary and Saint John, and Christ appearing to Saint Abune Tekle Haimanot. 92 grams, 95mm (3 3/4"). Ex central London gallery; previously in the Vimercate collection, Italy, 2006. The iconography here follows the tradition of the Gondor period. [No Reserve]

Fair condition, one panel with extensive loss and detached.