IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31298 accession number: M.2-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Alabaster carved in high relief with traces of the original colour and gilding. The Virgin is seated on a backless throne in the centre, strictly frontalised, with her hands outspread. Her draperies are arranged in highly conventional symmetry. On either side at her feet is a gilded feathered angel with four wings showing spines on the inner surface. The angel on the left plays a lute, whilst the one opposite probably played a harp (see documentation). Above the angels, seated on backless thrones, are two persons of the Trinity, crowned and bearded, facing inwards and placing a triple crown on the head of the Virgin. Above the Virgin's crown appears out of the clouds the third person of the Trinity, half-length, crowned and bearded, frontalised and with hands outspread. Between the heads of the Three persons of the Trinity appear two half-length angels rising out of the clouds, with hands outspread and wings coloured as those below. The background is crowded with little gilded knobs and there are many traces of the original colour, especially the gilt borders to the edges of the robes, the tinted lips, the large fiery halo behind the Virgin's head, the red mantle of the figure on the left and the blue mantle of the figure on the right. [Description taken from Philip Nelson, 1920]. title: relief NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Grosvenor Thomas; sold, 18 May 1923, lot 290. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31298 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary angels Trinity SUBJECTS ------------------- coronation coronation of the Virgin coronation coronation of the Virgin TECHNIQUES ---------- alabaster, carved in high relief, with traces of the original colour and gilding carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1420 - 1460 creation date earliest: 1420 creation date latest: 1460 culture: 15th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 43.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 28.3 CITATIONS -------- Some Unpublished English Medieval Alabaster Carvings Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Fifteenth Annual Report, 1923 Catalogue of an exhibition of English alabaster work, 26th May to 30th June 1910 Alabaster Images of Medieval England English Medieval Alabsters with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum Fine English & Continental Furniture & Works of Art ---