IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31303 accession number: M.3-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The Ascension. Alabaster carved in high relief with traces of the original colour and gilding. Rectangular. In front on the left: the Virgin and St Matthew with a satchel slung over the left shoulder. In front on the right: St John with a palm resting on his left shoulder and raising his right arm, and St Jude with his boat in his left hand. A mound rises behind these figures, on either side of which are seen four more apostles, the most prominent of which is St Bartholomew, holding a large knife in his left hand (his head is lost). Above in the centre is the lower part of the figure of Christ disappearing into clouds. Colouring: The boulders on which the four front figures kneel still bear traces of the red rosettes that decorated them. Again on the mound above St John's head a red rose is distinguishable. Traces of the original gilding appear on St Jude's beard and hair, and elsewhere throughout the plaque. title: relief NOTES ----- type: history note value: 18th May 1923: Collection of Mr Grosvenor Thomas (sale catalogue no. 291) 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/31303 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary St Matthew St John St Jude St Bartholomew St Thomas Christ Apostles SUBJECTS ------------------- boat knife rose palm ascension clouds The Ascension boat knife rose palm ascension clouds The Ascension TECHNIQUES ---------- alabaster, carved in high relief, with traces of the original colour and gilding carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1420 - 1420 creation date earliest: 1420 creation date latest: 1420 culture: 15th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 42.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 25.1 CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Fifteenth Annual Report, 1923 Art Bulletin, Vol. XXXII, 1950 Catalogue of an exhibition of English alabaster work, 26th May to 30th June 1910 English Medieval Alabsters with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum Alabaster Images of Medieval England ---