As Christmas nears, here's a lovely L15-E16thC portable nativity scene from a gold ring, found Sleaford, Lincs :) https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/642395 …pic.twitter.com/NCsXFSNBJH
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As Christmas nears, here's a lovely L15-E16thC portable nativity scene from a gold ring, found Sleaford, Lincs :) https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/642395 …pic.twitter.com/NCsXFSNBJH
A 6th- or 7th-century Byzantine ring featuring the Nativity & other scenes from the Life of Christ :) http://art.thewalters.org/detail/11447 pic.twitter.com/AQUVHpltMA
A medieval wearable nativity scene — reverse of the late 15th-century Middleham Jewel, from Yorkshire: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middleham_Jewel,_reverse_YORYM_1991_43.jpg …pic.twitter.com/kCqAy3EBT5
A 10th- or 11th-century Byzantine reliquary pendent showing the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/treasuresofheaven/relics/Reliquary-Pendant-with-the-Adoration-of-the-Magi.php …pic.twitter.com/lv1pOOiHft
Another Byzantine Nativity, from the Menologion of Basil II, c. AD 1000: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menologion_of_Basil_053.jpg …pic.twitter.com/POd5VZIe5I
An ivory leaf from a Byzantine diptych showing the Nativity, 1st half of 6th century, from Thessaly, Greece: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=60956&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/Du26K8xXiq
A late 10th-century Anglo-Saxon Nativity scene carved in ivory & a near-identical illumination of the same scene from the late 10th-century Benedictional of St Æthelwold (f.15v): http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/antiquities/british-european/ivories/item-440815.aspx … & http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_49598_f015v …pic.twitter.com/D6HoPwjmH7
An 8th- or 9th-century Nativity scene on a bronze censer, thought likely to have been made in Umayyad or early Abbasid northern Syria: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=60791&partId=1 … & http://www.jstor.org/stable/4199974 pic.twitter.com/dr6rhbxLiH
A 12th-century champlevé enamel plaque featuring the Nativity, made in the Meuse Valley, the Netherlands, in c.1165: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464405 …pic.twitter.com/kYKfsmEerj
Glad they let us know who that chap was lurking in the background. :)
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