NOTTINGHAM, 15TH CENTURY

Details

A rectangular carved alabaster relief of St. Margaret
Nottingham, 15th Century
Traces of gilding and polychromy, on a modern velvet covered mount with suspension lip to the reverse
40.5cm. high

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Lot Essay

A nearly identical relief of St. Margaret is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. For an illustration and discussion of that example, see F. Cheetham, English Medieval Alabasters, Oxford, 1984, no. 57, p. 128.

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