Prayer Nut with Scenes from the Life of St. James the Greater, c. 1500-1530. Adam Dircksz (Netherlandish, active c. 1500), and Workshop. Boxwood; overall: x cm (2 5/16 x 1 7/8 in.). Prayer nuts or "paternosters" are generally made from boxwood and carved with extreme refinement and delicacy with openwork Gothic tracery. They came into fashion as private devotional accessories in the Netherlands in about 1500 to 1530. About 50 prayer nuts are still known to survive.

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