Pendant Triptych with an Onyx Cameo of the Nativity

Pendant Triptych with an Onyx Cameo of the Nativity

c. 1460–1500; cameo: c. 1250–1300 · Pendant: France, Paris or Tours; Cameo: Italy, 13th-15th century

basse-taille enamel on gold; onyx cameo

And she brought foorth her first borne sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no roome for them in the Inne.
LUKE 2:7 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

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