An Orthodox icon of a Prophet or apostle with a scroll, probably 17th century, in gesso and gilt upon a prepared timber panel depicting a white bearded figure with a red cloak and nimbus holding an open scroll, with church Slavonic script to the scroll and gilded ground, framed in a deep gold burnished frame; with the 1953 receipt from the London Galleries, Kew. Height 37.5 cm, width 31 cm