Occult Literature
Terracotta Mask and Painted Pottery Figures
A fierce face with a projecting tongue fills the upper half of the orange-red plate. Beneath it stand two small painted pottery figures with spreading, wing-like bodies. The printed labels identify terracotta from the museum at Syracuse and painted pottery from the museum at Athens. Elworthy places these forms together in The Evil Eye; the lower objects are figures, rather than a pair of hand-shaped charms.
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Illustrator not identified. "Terracotta Mask and Painted Pottery Figures" [editorial title]. In The Evil Eye, Frederick Thomas Elworthy. London: John Murray, 1895; Wellcome Collection scan, 1895, J. Murray. Source scan leaf 204. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0049-0193
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Illustrator not identified. Terracotta Mask and Painted Pottery Figures. The Evil Eye. Scan leaf 204. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0049-0193