Characteristics:
Material: silver 925, gilding 999
Аverage weight of the chain: 14 g
Chain length, cm: 45
Аverage weight of the chain: 14 g
Chain length, cm: 45
Link size: three types of links
Technique: casting, gilding, blackening, handmade
Technique: casting, gilding, blackening, handmade
The chain is intended for carrying icons. Small crosses are placed in rhombuses, decorated with gilded ornaments which connect links. Stick to icons on crescent-shaped special fastenings, twirled on a spiral. A fastener on a chain very unusual - in the form of a little small fish. Fish is very ancient symbol of Orthodoxy. In Judea the Christian have found a secret way to report each other about the place of a meeting of Orthodox Christians on a prayer and the sermon. Was to one Christian to draw on sand the image of fish enough to understand to another that that is the orthodox Christian who knows that somewhere nearby there is a meeting of believers. Fishes also represent on icons, or use in ornaments for ornament when they paint Orthodox churches.
