A carved, painted and gilt alabaster panel, England, 1440 to 1460, showing a haloed, bearded apostle wearing pilgrim attire including a scallop shell hat and a staff, identifying him as St James the Greater. Held today by the Victoria and Albert Museum under museum number A.150-1922, given by Art Fund.
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Custody HistoryThis panel belonged to a set of twelve English alabaster apostle panels, said to have come from a church in Zamora, Spain, that probably formed the upper register of a rood screen, standing in a line just below the rood, the large figure of the crucified Christ, as was customary in English parish churches before such screens were dismantled at the Reformation. Many hundreds of alabasters carved at Nottingham's workshops were exported abroad between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, some as far as Iceland and Santiago de Compostela in Spain. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The panel's directly named subject per the museum's own title, "St James the Greater," identified by the pilgrim staff and scallop shell that the corroborating Wikipedia record confirms as James son of Zebedee's standard emblem at Santiago de Compostela.
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