Vintage Bronze Christ Child in the Manger Medal
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Christ Child in the Manger Medal gives the whole disc to the scene. The Christ Child lies raised on a heaped bed of straw, a disc halo behind his head, one arm lifted and the other resting across a fold of cloth, and the straw is cut in fine parallel strokes that fill the lower half of the field and catch the light.
Christmas medals are less common than one might expect, and this one keeps to the simplest possible telling: the Child, the straw, the light behind his head, and nothing else. It is the whole doctrine of the Incarnation in one small picture, God not visiting the world but lying down in it, on straw, in the cold, waiting for someone else to lift him. It makes a natural gift at a birth or a baptism, or at Christmas itself.
The medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the medal's vintage character.
- Made in the USA
- Artisan-cast from an antique original
- Finished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.
- Buy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace
- Add a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear
- Arrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Christ Child in the Manger Medal gives the whole disc to the scene. The Christ Child lies raised on a heaped bed of straw, a disc halo behind his head, one arm lifted and the other resting across a fold of cloth, and the straw is cut in fine parallel strokes that fill the lower half of the field and catch the light.
Christmas medals are less common than one might expect, and this one keeps to the simplest possible telling: the Child, the straw, the light behind his head, and nothing else. It is the whole doctrine of the Incarnation in one small picture, God not visiting the world but lying down in it, on straw, in the cold, waiting for someone else to lift him. It makes a natural gift at a birth or a baptism, or at Christmas itself.
The medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the medal's vintage character.
- Made in the USA
- Artisan-cast from an antique original
- Finished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.
- Buy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace
- Add a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear
- Arrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box
