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| Figure 26 Tiles, Holland, ca. 1650–1700. Delftware; yellow clay. Left: 5.11" x 5.11" (thickness concealed by framing). Right: 5" x 5" (thickness concealed by a frame). Two treatments of the same subject, namely merpeople wearing elaborate bonnets and demonstrating how to spin flax without legs to grip the distaff (see fig. 27). The sea is treated as lateral stripes, one with spray and the other without it. There are dual pinholes set .59" in from the oxhead corners. |
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