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Although not always made to deceive, unscrupulous dealers often sold them as genuine objects to their clients.\nThe simpering sweetness of the Virgin's face, the detached relationship of the two figures, the unmedieval fall of the cloth between the Christ-Child and the Virgin's arm and the back of the Virgin's veil all betray quite clearly its later origins. \n\nThree dimensional images of the Virgin and Child were ubiquitous from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, produced in a wide range of materials and sizes and testifying the overwhelming devotion to th Virgin. 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