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Margit Kovács modelled the bread-cutting peasant girl as a dexterously pot-wheeled life-sized figure. Through this large, pot-wheeled genre figure she recorded an important moment of the Hungarian farmers' life, i.e. the cutting and offering of bread. The loaf of bread positioned in the theoretical centre of the composition symbolises wealth and well-being. Thus in this context, the artist is able to express a very unique symbolism through the realistically modelled figure of the bread-cutting girl. In the slender figure dressed in folk attire, with her blond hair gathered up in a knot, Margit Kovács has created the idealised figure of the Hungarian peasant girl. The cylindrically pot-wheeled figure is dark brown, while her dress hanging to the earth is decorated with white and blue flowery decorative patterns and white trim.
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