A RUSSIAN ICON OF THE 'TROERUCHITSA' (THREE-HANDED) MOTHER OF GOD, 19TH CENTURY set against a gilt ground, the Virgin holding the Christ Child with her right hand, resting her left hand on her chest, the third hand emerging from under the drapes of her omophorion, egg tempera, gold leaf and gesso on wood panel 35.5cm high A copy of the 'Panagia Tricherousa' (now kept at the Serbian Chilandari Monastery on Mount Athos) was sent to Russia in 1661, where it became a familiar format for Russian icons.