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They were clearly identified as modern products by the presence of a shield bearing the Ginori arms and the inscription \u2018Manifattura Ginori 1853\u2019 situated behind the kneeling Saint Sixtus.\n\nThe history of this fragment is not known before it came to England in 1914, but it seems likely to have been part of the relief whose whereabouts is not known, or of a later example. Its right edge follows the division between the left and central sections of the surviving lunettes, but the left side is unevenly broken, and the shield of arms is missing. This may have resulted from accidental damage, but seems more likely to have been the result of deliberate intervention to remove evidence of the relief\u2019s true date. The fragment demonstrates how the high quality of Della Robbia-style reliefs legitimately made by the Ginori factory permitted them to be passed off as Renaissance works on the art market within a fairly short time of their manufacture. 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