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On the left wing St. Agnes with a lamb. On the right a virgin saint with a palm branch and a book.\n\nThe Embriachi workshop was a north Italian family of entrepreneurs and carvers. The precise location of the workshop is unknown, except that it originated in Florence in around probably the 1370s. \r\nBaldassare Embrichi, a member of a Florentine noble family, and the Florentine literary circles, during his career acted as both merchant and diplomat. He was therefore rather the financial means behind the bone-carving workshop that bears his name, rather than its leading artist. By 1395, political and financial circumstances had forced him to transfer to Venice. The suggested time range of activity for the workshop differs, from the tightest being 1390-1405, to a wider span of 1370s until at least 1416, but certainly no later than 1433.\r\nThey employed local workers specialising in 'certosina' (inlay of stained woods, bone and horn), and the workshop produced items carved in bone (usually horse or ox) with wood and bone marquetry.\r\nAs well as altarpieces, the workshop also made caskets as bridal gifts to hold jewels or documents, and these were often decorated with scenes from mythology.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Triptych. In the centre, beneath a trilobed arch, stands the Virgin holding the Child, who plays with a bird that the Virgin supports on her right hand. To either side are blank plaques of bone. On the left wing St. Agnes with a lamb standing beneath a building. On the right an unidentified virgin saint with a palm branch and a book. There are remains of red paint on the background and the lips of the figures, and dark blue on the eyes and on architectural details such as windows. ","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Workshop of Embriachi","id":"A13910"},"association":{"text":"sculptor","id":"x43862"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"bone","id":"AAT11798"},{"text":"wood","id":"AAT11914"},{"text":"horn","id":"AAT11826"}],"techniques":[{"text":"inlay","id":"AAT53850"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Bone, pigment, horn and intarsia. 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