Christian Art & Judaica

Bronze icons small enough to travel in a coat pocket. Christian religious art here includes Russian bronze and enamel icons and crosses, Ethiopian Coptic crosses, Mexican colonial paintings and carved santos from 19th century French Indochina. The Russian pieces, from the 16th through 19th centuries, are cast folding triptychs, amulets and crosses showing the Mother of God, the Holy Trinity, Saint Nicholas the Wonder Worker and the feasts of the church. Such cast icons are closely associated with the Old Believers.

Ethiopian crosses come in iron and silver alloy. From Vietnam come painted wood figures of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Joseph, Saint Benedict and Saint Expeditus, and an altar niche; from Mexico, oil paintings, a panel icon and a silver incensario; from the Congo, a Tabwa figure of Saint Anthony. Hang a traveling icon in a quiet corner or set a cross on a stand on a bookshelf. Made to be carried, and carried a long way.