Nativity; swaddled child; ox; ass.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Uneven, with scoring. Curved.
Modern ink inscription, '725'.
Object Condition
Pierced with a large hole on the left side.
Comments
Very similar to a piece in Amiens and another one in Darmstadt.
Provenance
Collection of John Hunt (b. 1900, d. 1976) and Gertrude Hunt (b. 1903, d. 1975), Limerick; now part of the Hunt Museum which opened in 1997.
Bibliography
P. Doran, 'The Hunt Museum', in North Munster Antiquarian Journal (Studia in Memoriam John Hunt) 20 (1978), pp. 3-15.
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