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Maiolica arcaica figure group. Standing Virgin and Child. Unidentified Orvieto pottery, Umbria. The Virgin stands holding the infant Christ in her left arm. Christ wears a skirt, and she wears a long pleated gown and a cloak over her head which falls down over her shoulders to the ground. The Virgin's costume is decorated with vertical rows of slanting manganese and green strokes between wide green and narrow manganese stripes. Christ's skirt has close-set stripes of alternate colours. The figure of the Virgin is hollow and the head was made separately and set into the body before firing. Greyish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white on the exterior, and painted in manganese and copper-green, height, whole, 32.0 cm, depth, front-back, 18.0 cm, circa 1350-1450.
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