During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, carved alabaster altarpieces consisting of a series of scenes and figures were produced in the areas surrounding Nottingham, England. Alabaster panels would be carved individually, and then painted and mounted into wooden frameworks. One of the most popular subjects for these altarpieces was The Joys of the Virgin and the present panel, depicting the Coronation of the Virgin by the Holy Trinity, would have originally served as the last scene i✤n one of these narrati🌊ves works.

RELATED LITERATURE:

F. Cheetham, English Medieval Alabasters, Phaidon, Oxford, 1984