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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 396323, member: 2844"]Here in Europe many religious statues made for the pilgrim trade were made from pipe clay, ever since the Middle Ages. They were copies of the venerated statue from the place of pilgrimage.</p><p>This is a 15th century Dutch one with the original mold:</p><p><img src="http://www.zeeuwseankers.nl/data/uploads/201603291156fa49706f0c5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The crown is also a feature of many Madonnas, a reference to her being Queen of Heaven, a concept borrowed from ancient Goddess religions. (Like Astarte, Ishtar/Esther, Tanit.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 396323, member: 2844"]Here in Europe many religious statues made for the pilgrim trade were made from pipe clay, ever since the Middle Ages. They were copies of the venerated statue from the place of pilgrimage. This is a 15th century Dutch one with the original mold: [IMG]http://www.zeeuwseankers.nl/data/uploads/201603291156fa49706f0c5.jpg[/IMG] The crown is also a feature of many Madonnas, a reference to her being Queen of Heaven, a concept borrowed from ancient Goddess religions. (Like Astarte, Ishtar/Esther, Tanit.)[/QUOTE]
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