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| Keywords: Master of the Large Foreheads - Virgin and Child - Walters 44216.jpg The Virgin wears a diadem and is dressed in a blue robe and a purple mantle The child Christ wears a long green robe The group is seated on a low bench resting on a tiled floor At an early date this plaque was exported to northern Italy where it was set in a nielloed gilt-metal frame God the Father appears in the nielloed plaque of the small tympanum and the band underneath is inscribed in niello PAX VOBIS The frame is decorated with acroteria thorny acanthus leaves egg-and-dart dentils cherubs' heads palmettes and flanked by two pilasters their capitals adorned with acanthus leaves and two rosettes their shafts with elongated leafy motifs early Other date century 16 painted enamel on copper with silver niello frame Pax cm 17 9 ; Plaque cm 6 7 5 accession number 44 216 18646 Valerio Collection Sale Paris December 18 1893 Jacques Seligmann Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 place of origin northern Italy Walters Art Museum license Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Master of the Large Foreheads Madonna and Child Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum Pax tablets | ||||
