Story of the birth of Christ shown on an unidentified ivory piece, depicting: 1) Mary reclining in bed and looking at the Christ-child, surrounded by angels and shepherds; 2) the Christ-child being bathed by the midwife with Joseph looking on
Nativity on Ivory, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=31702 [retrieved March 3, 2021]. Original source: Image donated by Patout Burns.
Record Number:
31702
Last Updated: 2021-02-17 13:20:36
Record Created: 2003-08-01 00:00:00
Institution:
Vanderbilt University
Unit: Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition