Bald Eagle

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

Hand painted in gold and silvery white with delicate glittering detail. Great addition to bird collections.

For centuries it was believed that the eagle could look directly into the sun and that it was reborn by diving into a fountain. Christians adopted this symbolism, comparing the eagle looking into the sun to Christ looking at His Father and the fountain as the renewal of the soul through baptism. Today, an eagle may often be spied on the baptismal fonts in older churches.