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This large 16th century terracotta Nativity scene is attributed to Pietro Paolo Agabiti, an artist from Sassoferrato who has worked extensively in Jesi where he took refuge to escape a murder charge.
The large crib adorned an altar of the demolished church of San Francesco al Monte and consists of the Nativity scene surmounted by a rural landscape populated by shepherds, pipers and angels.
The sacred scene is enclosed within a splendid terracotta frame, finely worked with ornamental motifs in relief in which dolphins, lions, lizards, snails and griffins appear.
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