A 15th century Nottingham alabaster and polychrome decorated fragment depicting the Coronation of...

A 15th century Nottingham alabaster and polychrome decorated fragment depicting the Coronation of the Virgin, with gilt highlights, with the Virgin Mary with her hands raised, flanked by God the Father holding an orb and the Son holding a cross, 27 x 28.6cm.

Nottingham alabaster was mainly quarried in Tutbury and Chellaston near Nottingham. During the 14th -16th century altarpieces and devotional images were incredibly popular at home and abroad, with high demand for carvings from the merchant classes and religious institutions. Many hundreds of English alabasters were exported to the continent with some discovered at Santiago de Compostela in Spain and as far north as Iceland. For a similar panel see the Victoria & Albert's collection of Nottingham Alabasters museum number: A. 157-1946, which was formerly in Toulouse, France.