Every year the PITCAIRN family displayed a SET OF 3 NATIVITY DIORAMAS with this vibrant BLUE background in their dining area for all of the family and guests to enjoy.
Most if not all of these NATIVITY SCENES in the PITCAIRN HOME were hand-made in ITALY. If you can zoom in to see the detail, you'll be even more delighted.
This next one, with several levels and a hub-bub of activity, really caught my eye. Remember that each piece of fruit, every character and the shingles and bricks are all HAND-CARVED and HAND-PAINTED. There are a number of tiny CLAY POTS on the back wall. The LION FACE on this back wall is typically seen in ITALY spouting water from his mouth into the bowl below. INCREDIBLE.
A massive NATIVITY SCENE was displayed in THE GREAT HALL, where our house tour began.
The last NATIVITY SCENE I'm sharing here was completed in 2015. It was a commissioned piece, to incorporate many special parts of the GLENCAIRN ESTATE buildings into the scene. From my past few posts on this estate, you might recognize the STAINED GLASS WINDOW from the CATHEDRAL, the vibrant half-moon painting of the NATIVITY on the back wall over the fireplace and the similarity of the general architecture of this diorama to the buildings on the estate grounds.
Beautiful reminders of the CHRISTIAN meaning of CHRISTMAS.
JOAN
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