An antique 'Mother of God of the Unburnt Thornbush' icon, in tempera colours upon a prepared timber panel with battens, typically depicting the Virgin within an eight pointed star in red and blue representing fire and the heavens, accompanied by the four evangelists, angels and church Slavonic inscriptions in Cyrillic, a silvered oklad surround bearing the inscription 'Neopalimaya Kupina'. Height 31 cm. Width 28.5 cm