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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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