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
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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
A 9th-century Carolingian situla (bucket for holy water) decorated with the life of Christ including the Nativity; it is made from an entire hollowed out section of an elephant tusk: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464438 …pic.twitter.com/6cg2bT8HF1
An early Byzantine terracotta pilgrim-token of the 6th/7th century, depicting the Nativity with the Virgin on the left; found Qal'at Sem'an, Syria: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=61435&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/sds9AqZEMj
A Nativity scene worked in niello on the undersurface of the lid of the early 9th-century Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/472562 …pic.twitter.com/GaP7KctZHM
The Nativity, by the 13th-century Armenian manuscript illuminator T'oros Roslin, produced 1262: http://art.thewalters.org/detail/31378/nativity-3/ …pic.twitter.com/EiXRDgoinX
A very early Nativity scene, first half of 4th century, sarcophagus of Marcus Claudianus: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Sarcophage_de_Marcus_Claudianus_-_Pal._Massimo_alle_Terme.JPG …pic.twitter.com/dhS4BdEIro
A 9th-century Carolingian Nativity scene in the Utrecht Psalter: http://psalter.library.uu.nl/page?p=183&res=1&x=167&y=0 …pic.twitter.com/pWYv5D2fmK
Another Carolingian Nativity scene, from the front cover of the early 9th-century Lorsch Gospels: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BLW_Lorsch_Gospels_cover_(detail).jpg …pic.twitter.com/rnUU6MlQRl
A 6th-century ivory panel depicting the Nativity of Jesus; probably made in Egypt or Syria: https://rylandscollections.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/sixth-century-nativity/ …pic.twitter.com/NF0bziQgr0
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