Jesus Holding Up the Eucharist (SNV 050) Ceramic Tree Decoration

For 1st Communicants + In this roundel, Jesus is garbed in bright primary colors--a blue tunic with a yellow collar and red mantle. He holds up and out to His sides the Eucharist—the bread in his upraised right hand; the chalice of wine, in his left. The gesture is open, expansive, invitational. Jesus makes eye contact with the viewer establishing a personal relationship. The image is not grounded in time nor space. Delicately rendered tendrils of grapevines fill the mostly desaturated dark orange background. + Image Credit (SNV 050): Detail of an antique image of Jesus Holding Up the Eucharist from a late 19th-century First Holy Communion certificate in chromolithography, originally published by St. Norbertus Verlag, Vienna, Austria, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera.