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The object might have had a metaphoric meaning as if the reflected image of the viewer will mirror the ideal beauty and virtue depicted on the frame.\r\n\r\nIn the V&A there is a very similar mirror frame attributed by the Sienese artist Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, made of painted and gilded papier-mâche (Museum no. 850-1884). Although the latter object is bigger than the maiolica mirror frame the mould  might have been copied from a sculptural prototype made in the workshop of a sculptor or painter.","physicalDescription":"Tin-glazed earthenware plaque. 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Florence, 2002.  Cat 62, pp.264-269.  Catalogue of the exhibition held at Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pope-Hennessy, J.  <u>Catalogue of  Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>.  London, 1964.  Vol I, pp.270-271.  Vol.II, 179 p., catalogue entry 285."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Berti, Fausti.  <u>Storia della ceramica di Montelupo</u>.  Vol.III.  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