Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . SKM. PAX. SILVER GILT. No. 3580—1856. THE design and composition of this pax are of the character of similarobjects by Italian artists, to which school about 1550 the designbelongs. The centre panel represents the Nativity, with the blessedVirgin and St. Joseph kneeling on either side of the infant Saviour. Twohalf-angels behind the manger join in an attitude of adoration, and twoshepherds are seen at the back of the Virgin. This is executed in frame stands upon a dado
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . SKM. PAX. SILVER GILT. No. 3580—1856. THE design and composition of this pax are of the character of similarobjects by Italian artists, to which school about 1550 the designbelongs. The centre panel represents the Nativity, with the blessedVirgin and St. Joseph kneeling on either side of the infant Saviour. Twohalf-angels behind the manger join in an attitude of adoration, and twoshepherds are seen at the back of the Virgin. This is executed in frame stands upon a dado and is supported by flanking side pilasters filled with arabesque work of great delicacy support theentablature. The tympanum contains a representation, also in niello, ofthe Eternal Father with arms extended and surrounded by angels. Thedado is filled with a light arabesque ornament; and on the entablature isthe legend Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax. The size is eightinches in height by about five across. The pax is used at high mass in the catholic Church: very frequentnotices of it
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