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He is enthroned and wears a gown and a cloak with his hands presumably raised in blessing. Between his knees there is a cross bearing the bearded Christ, wearing the torse and a loincloth with his head inclined to the left. The Holy Spirit is not represented, although there is a small dowel hole at the top of the cross by which the Dove was probably attached. \r\n\nThe carving of alabaster, mostly quarried in Tutbury and Chellaston near Nottingham, took on industrial proportions in England between the middle of the 14th and the early 16th centuries. The market for altarpieces and smaller devotional images was a large one. It included not only religious foundations but also the merchant classes. Many hundreds of English alabasters were exported, some as far afield as Iceland and Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain.\r\nAlabaster - a form of gypsum - is a comparatively soft material and is therefore easy to carve. It can also be polished. Its natural colour was especially useful for the representation of faces and flesh, which would normally remain unpainted. ","physicalDescription":"The large figure of the Trinity shows God the Father, crowned and with a forked beard; his eyelids are carved. He is enthroned and wears a gown and a cloak, with his hands (missing) presumably raised in blessing. Between his knees is the cross bearing the bearded Christ, wearing the torse and a loincloth, his head inclined to the left. The Holy Spirit is not represented, although there is a small dowel hole at the top of the cross by which the Dove was probably attached.\r\n\r\nThe hands of God the Father are missing. Traces of darkened green and red paint remain on the cross. There is red in the folds of God the Father's robes and on his crown. There are traces of green paint on the throne. Gilding remains on the hair and beard of God the Father and Christ. Traces of gesso squares remain on the cross. \r\n\r\nAlmost the whole of the back of the figure has been scooped away. The bottom has been particularly cut away. 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