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Together with the Crucifixion, statues and statuettes of the Virgin and Child were the pricipal objects of devotion in the Christian Church, and vast numbers were made for ecclesisastical, monastic and private worship.\n\nThe present Virgin and Child statuette follows the form of the Madonna in the church of SS. Annunziata in Trapani, Sicily. This over-life-size marble statue, stylistically in the mid-fourteenth-century orbit of Nino Pisano, was much venerated; It rapidly gained a reputation for its miraculous properties and by the fifteenth century copies were being made in good numbers by Francesco Laurana and others (Kruft 1970). This copying quickly turned into mass-production in different materials and varying sizes: most of these are in marble or alabaster, but several examples in ivory are known, including a more frontally-posed version in Bolgona (Venturi 1906, fig. 743). 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