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Model of face presentation
    • Setting:
      Room X
    • Author:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      1770-1775
    • Materials:
      terracotta
    • Dimensions:
      260x330x45 mm
    • Inventory:
      Dep. OSMN, Firenze
    • Model of face presentation (Dep. OSMN, Firenze)

This terracotta model, commissioned by Giuseppe Galletti, describes a face presentation with the fetus in anterior position. For birth to occur in this presentation, the chin must rotate under the pubis.