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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 337747, member: 5833&quot;]The one I can match most closely is the horseman, which looks pretty much like standard depictions of St. George slaying the dragon.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]113302[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Laboring with some temporarily diminished eyesight here, so feel I&#039;m not picking up as much detail in the other wood carving as I would like.&nbsp; It has an overall similarity to Annunciation scenes, but Mary is enthroned, think the babe may already be on her knee, the setting is palatial &amp; there are other figures, at least one of them crowned, looking on.&nbsp; I&#039;m getting out of it more of an Adoration scene, but may not be picking up details that would argue for the Annunciation.</p><p><br /></p><p>A seraph it is.&nbsp; A big part of their job is hovering about in adoration.&nbsp; The bird looks to me more like the dove representing the Holy Spirit (I was wrong on this just recently, so might be good to bring in [USER=5006]@kyratango[/USER] ) &amp; here they are both in the same scene:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Seraphim_-_Petites_Heures_de_Jean_de_Berry.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Do I understand correctly that this is a single object that comes apart into 2 pieces?&nbsp; A lovely little pocket devotional item.&nbsp; Very nice find.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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