IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 30286 accession number: M.25-1929 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 28 January 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Under a canopy in the centre niche is the figure group of the Virgin and Child. The Virgin holds an apple and the Child blesses with the right hand. On either side are two tiers of niches with canopies, and under each are two saints. In the top left are two female saints. One wearing a crown, holding a lamb in her right arm and a palm in her left hand, the other, St Catherine, crowned, holding a broken wheel in her left hand and a palm in her right. In the bottom left is St Lawrence, holding a grid iron in his right hand and a palm in his left hand, and a bishop, holding a book in one hand and a palm in the other. In the top right is St Dorothy(?), holding a basket (?) with a double handle over the top of it in one hand and a palm in the other, and a female saint, holding a plate (?) in one hand and a palm in the other. In the bottom right is a pilgrim saint, holding a casket in one hand and a staff in the other, and another pilgrim saint, holding a short column in one hand and a staff in the other. title: altarpiece NOTES ----- type: history note value: 1908: Bought in Towcaster, Northants LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Aymer Vallance STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30286 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary Christ saint St Catherine of Alexandria St Lawrence St Dorothy bishop SUBJECTS ------------------- palm plate wheel casket basket grid iron column lamb palm plate wheel casket basket grid iron column lamb TECHNIQUES ---------- carved wood carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1475 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1475 culture: 15th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 59.0 dimension: Width units: in value: 51.0 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/M_25_1929.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 662 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/mid_M_25_1929.jpg height: 559 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/M_25_1929.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 662 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/preview_M_25_1929.jpg height: 279 pixels width: 250 pixels