POLYCHROME EMBROIDERY WITHIN A PAINTED OVAL FRAME, 18th/19th century

with frame h cm 39 x l cm 31

Depicting the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, with the body of Jesus taken down from the cross and supported by the Virgin Mary, surrounded by the grieving figures of St John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalene and other devout women. Set within an oval frame of carved, gilded and polychrome wood, decorated with floral and geometric motifs in shades of red and green.