Prayer nut with The Nativity and The Adoration of the Magi, A small silver-coated prayer note, consisting of two miniature reliefs of the Nativity of Christ and the Adoration of the Magi. Both reliefs are made of boxwood and mounted in two hinged, silver half balls with closure and a small chain. The silver ball is entirely decorated with extremely refined Gothic engraving: on the one hand animals between leaves (a monkey, a dog, an owl and other birds), and on the other five figures: Eva, a man who shovels into the ground with a shovel, a man with a falcon, a man standing in the water and a m

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Size: 4584px × 6073px
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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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