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Christmas Crib
Also titled Kerstwieg
c. 1500 - c. 1510
- Medium
- bone (material), oak (wood)
- Classification
- kerstwieg
- Dimensions
- height 62.5 cm x width 34.5 cm x depth 17.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Frits en Phine Verhaaff Fonds/ Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Ebus Fonds/ Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Christmas cribs were used for private worship at home, and in cloisters and churches too. On Christmas day, a crib was placed on the high altar and churchgoers would bring their own cribs. As the priest shook the crib and began to sing, the congregation would join in. The church would fill with the sound of Christmas carols and the chimes of the bells attached to the cribs.
