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Christmas - Bethlehem of the Cloister the Ursulins in Bratislava Issue number
FDC 253
Date of issue
15.10.2001
Face value
5.50 Sk
Sell price
1.20 €

A small carved rococo Nativity scene from the Municipal Museum's collection in Bratislava, exhibited in one of the historical halls in premises of the Apponyi's Palace, belongs to the most notable style Nativity scenes in Slovakia. It was purchased for the museum from the Nunnery of Ursulines in 1940, but there are no written mentions about it. Wood carver created numerically reduced composition of Worship of shepherds in this Nativity scene. On the common pedestal, standing on four ornamental legs stylised as paws and decorated with relief gliding rococo ornaments at the front, the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, and two shepherds...

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