Illustrated Descriptive Account of the Museum of Andalucian Pottery And Lace An
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I<} Image of the Virgin seated cross-legged on a cushion, suckling the Child. Ivory-coloured clay touched with gold. The eyes and eyebrows painted black. Mozarabic.
r. P 37 37 villages which were at all times outside the political and warlike movements of the successive races that ruled in Spain, we still find what we can only describe as Tartessian traditions in full force in the shapes and the technique of the domestic pottery there made, on which sun designs and stars are drawn with ihc finger nail or a pointed stick, as was done by the inhabitants of the Peninsula in the Bronze Age.
In this room is one of the most interesting pieces ^^ in uur collection : a small X'irgin in enamelled clay of Mozarabic , t 1 •, 1 Virgin an ivory colour, seated cross-legged on a cushion on the ground after the Eastern fashion, gi\ ing the breast to her Son. The artistic tradition of the Mozarabs of Toledo is seen in the long ck)ak falling from the head to the floor, with a little crown above it. The Mozarabs of Toledo from the Xth century represented the Virgin with the cloak over her head, while those of Seville frequently left the head bare, until the artistic influences of the north came in after the reconquest.
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