The figure of the Child Jesus is depicted with his head inclined in contemplation and holding a lamb. He has a round face with curly hair and wear clothes engraved with a diamond pointed pattern and belted with a looped knot. The base resembles a rocky mountain with three terraces. The mountain stands on a magnificent base which has a relief of a pastoral scene, with sheep circumambulating the base, alluding to the Eucharistic gathering.The Child Jesus as Good Shepherd is an iconographic model most common in major Indo-Portuguese, especially for sculptors in ivory, which was more popular material in India than in Portugal or other European countries.
