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According to Kanter (loc. cit.) the present lot can be identified as a panel of a dismembered polyptych which included 'St. John the Baptist' (National Museum, Poznan, Poland, no. 546) and 'St. Eustochium' (ex-Lycett Green, York, England); a third lateral is still untraced. Although Kanter (ibid.) tentatively associates these panels with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 'Madonna and Child', based on their similarity in style and compatibility of size, he now believes that "any physical evidence of its (i.e. the Boston Madonna's) possible association with the Getty and Poznan panels has been lost" due to the regilding of these panels. However, Kanter notes that the present lot, the Poznan 'St. John', the ex-Lycett Green 'St. Eustochium' and the Boston 'Madonna' do share a similar punchwork pattern (seen in the outermost double ring of the haloes which is filled with a course of tightly aligned small circular punches creating the effect of a beaded necklace) which is present in only these panels