Maiolica arcaica figure group, standing Virgin and Child

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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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Accession Number: EC.2-1938
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 722 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 501.22kB
Exposure time: 1/250
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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14th Century 15th Century Baby Jesus Christ Christ child Christianity Christmas Early Renaissance earthenware figure figure group Fitz_AA glazed green infant Christ Italian Jesus Madonna maiolica maiolica arcaica manganese mother mother and child Other Keywords painted pottery Quattrocento religion religious Renaissance thrown tin-glazed Trecento Umbrian School Virgin and Child Virgin Mary Xmas

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