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VIRGIN MARY AND
THE INFANT CHILD JESUS

19th Century
h: 25,4 cm.; d: 20,7 cm.
 

Kütahya's potters and ceramic painters continued to produce objects with religious designs for the Christian populations of the Ottoman Sultanate. And this is proof of the tolerance of the Ottoman State. This Virgin Mary and the infant child Jesus icon resembles the wall-tiles with Christian designs which were made at Kütahya in c. 1718. These tiles were made to decorate the Holy Sepulchre Church and Monasteries in Jerusalem, they finally used in the Armenian St. James Church in Jerusalem. Three icons with Virgin Mary and the Christ-child Jesus are recorded. One of them is at the David Collection in Copenhagen; two other are in Sadberk Hanim Museum in Istanbul.

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