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Olive Wood Carvings
The Pietà
Item no. 05
$1,400
Mary holds her son across her lap, the oldest and quietest of sorrows.
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- Item number
- 05
- Material
- Bethlehem olive wood
- Technique
- Carved by hand
- Dimensions
- Measurements on request
- Delivery
- Worldwide, tracked, dispatched within 48 hours
Shipping
We dispatch every order within 48 hours by EMS Express Mail Service, fully tracked. Your tracking number is sent by email on the day your parcel leaves Bethlehem.
Payment
We accept Visa, Mastercard and American Express. We confirm the total, including shipping, before any payment is taken, and if we cannot fulfil an order we refund it in full.
Returns and breakage
Each piece is packed by hand in Bethlehem, so we cannot accept returns or exchanges once an order has shipped. Should anything arrive damaged, email us a photograph at info@saint-michael-store.com and we will send a replacement.
About this piece
What it shows
After the Cross, Mary receives the body of Christ. The subject has been carved and painted for seven hundred years, and it asks the same thing each time: that we stay a while with grief. Here her head bends low over him and the folds of her robe pool across the base.
How it is made
Carvers say olive wood shows itself best in drapery, and this piece shows why. The grain swirls through Mary's mantle in dark, smoke-like bands that no chisel could have planned. The broad base is cut to show the wood's figure, with a plate reading “Pieta”.
