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Model of forceps delivery
    • Setting:
      Room X
    • Author:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      1770-1775
    • Materials:
      terracotta
    • Dimensions:
      240x390x430 mm
    • Inventory:
      Dep. OSMN, Firenze
    • Model of forceps delivery (Dep. OSMN, Firenze)

This terracotta model, commissioned by Giuseppe Galletti, shows a situation similar to the one described in other wax models on display in the same room. Forceps are thus needed to disengage the head from the inferior strait.