Holiday Doves Christmas Ornament

16078 Merck Family's Old World Christmas

Measures approximately 3 1/2"

Mouth blown, hand painted, glass Christmas ornament from Merck Family's Old World Christmas.

In the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," Two Turtle Doves symbolize the Old and New Testaments. Years ago, the song served as a secret means of teaching English Catholics the basics of their religion. Today this carol has lost many of its old connotations and is now a merry standard of the holiday season.