Stock Photo - Prayer nut with The Nativity and The Adoration of the Magi, A small silver-coated prayer note, consisting of two miniature reliefs of the Nativity of Christ and the Adoration of the Magi. Both reliefs are made of boxwood and mounted in two hinged, silver half balls with closure and a small chain. The silver ball is entirely decorated with extremely refined Gothic engraving: on the one hand animals between leaves (a monkey, a dog, an owl and other birds), and on the other five figures: Eva, a man who shovels into the ground with a shovel, a man with a falcon, a man standing in the water and a man with a poker and fire. They are representations of the Four Elements (earth, air, water and fire) and possibly also different social positions. The animals represent the 'inverted world' of lust and evil. The silver ball is adorned with a twisted wire of pale gold, while there is a gold rosette on the top and bottom., Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity), annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and / or shepherdesses) at night, a host of singing angels in the air, the Tiburtine sibyl and Augustus: the sibyl reveals to the emperor a vision of the Madonna in heaven, Moses taking off his sandals - EE - Mary in the burning bush, adoration of the kings: the Wise One presents their gifts to the Christ-child (gold, frankincense and myrrh), the four elements, and ether, the fifth element, Eve (not in a biblical context), Adam Dircksz (workshop of), c. 1500 - c. 1530, boxwood (hardwood), silver (metal), gold (metal), engraving, d 4.8 cm