Devotional panel of John the Baptist

This devotional panel was discovered in Exeter in 1854 and was probably originally in a church. The image shows the head of John the Baptist on a platter, with St Catherine (bottom right with her Catherine Wheel) and St Margaret (bottom left).

Object Summary

Accession Loan No.
17/1916
Category
Antiquities
Collection Class
Architectural fragments
Collection Area Region
Northern Europe
Collector Excavator
Hems, Harry, Mr
Material
stone | alabaster | | |
Common Name
devotional panel of John the Baptist
Simple Name
sculpture
Period Classification
Late Medieval (1400-1500)
Production Town

Production Person Initials

Production Person Surname

Production Year Low
1400 
Production Year High
1500

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sculpture of the head of St John the Baptist