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Reverse Glass Folk Painting of Mary and Child
Ref: 4640
A reverse painting on glass folk style, the quintessential Romanian folk art is this, these were produced much like Staffordshire pottery in cottage factories, taken to market and sold to the common people, they were copied from serious German religious prints and as you can see here transformed into something typically Transylvanian. There is plenty of free interpretation here, the colours and clothes are the addition of the artist’s imagination so too the flowers - in the original prints these are heads of saints!
Transylvania c.1900-30
H: 45cm (17.7in)
W: 36cm (14.2in)
D: 1.5cm (0.6in)
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