English Alabaster (2)


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Description

The Entombment, late 14th century. A carved alabaster fragment from a Retable depicting the burial of Christ with Mary Magdelene and Nicodemus the Pharisee, who is traditionally placed at the feet.

Almost identical in style is a fragment of the Kiss of Judas from the Musee de Cluny and now exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, which is attributed to the same workshop as an example from Hawkley church in Hampshire.( Exhibition catalogue ‘Les Premiers Retables’, no.83, p.233) Both are firmly dated to the last quarter of the 14th century. As in this element all have the same treatment of the faces with rather protruding eyes, the same beard and hair and the same pointed shoes. It would be reasonable to also date this fragment to the same period and perhaps even to the same atelier.

Dimensions:

26.00cm wide   30.00cm high (10.24 inches wide  11.81 inches high)

Literature

See also W.L.Hildburgh 1950 p.14; cat. exp.Rouen 1931 no.7; Cheetham 2003, p.109