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Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Creche display 20 ft. blue spruce with a collection of 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs among its boughs and groups of realistic crèche figures flanking the Nativity scene at its base, displayed in the Museum's Medieval Sculpture Hall Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964. Behind the tree: Reja from the Cathedral of Valladolid, Spanish, 1763, Wrought iron, partially gilt, and limestone 52 x 42 ft. (15.86 x 12.81 m). Gift of The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 1956. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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