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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 363049, member: 56"]I agree that it's a boy and girl. The girl seems to have her hand in the mouth of the jug, trying to stem the flow. If that's true, there's another interpretation for a group like this. With the boy's finger raised (whether shushing or admonishing), and wine being spilled with the girl trying to stem it, this could be an allegory of loss of innocence.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 18th C it was not all of that unusual for adult subjects to be expressed through the depiction of putti.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 363049, member: 56"]I agree that it's a boy and girl. The girl seems to have her hand in the mouth of the jug, trying to stem the flow. If that's true, there's another interpretation for a group like this. With the boy's finger raised (whether shushing or admonishing), and wine being spilled with the girl trying to stem it, this could be an allegory of loss of innocence. In the 18th C it was not all of that unusual for adult subjects to be expressed through the depiction of putti.[/QUOTE]
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