Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: red (cloak of the kneeling holy woman at the foot of the Good Thief's cross to the left), black, blue, green.

Reverse
Mounted on wooden disc with red silk with Gibson-Carmichael labels '61' and '66'.

Object Condition
Missing: large portion of rim between the cross and the bad thief; sections of the pierced background decoration.
Vertical crack down the right side of the piece.

Comments
Mounted on a wooden background covered with red silk.

Provenance
Collection of Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, Bart, Castle Craig: his sale, London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 12 May 1902, lot 11; purchased at this sale by the museum through Messrs Durlacher Brothers, London.

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