Museum's opinion 2014: Italy, early 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy: plants, decoration on the tomb and on clothes; inscriptions; cross on the banner of the resurrected Christ; hair and beards; crown.
Reverse
Flat. Some crosshatching indicating that the figure of a saint, made of a different material, was glued onto the back of each panel.
Comments
Recessed around the edges.
Provenance
Collection of Ralph Bernal (b. 1783, d. 1854), 93 Eaton Square, London: his sale, Christie's and Manson, London, 5 March 1855; purchased by the British Museum from John Webb, through Christie's, 1855.
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