412 S. MYLOR AISTD MABE CHURCHES. 



of Siou (Henry BradsliaTY Socieiy) 87).* Height, 11 inches; 

 width, 8 inches. Two wires. f 



2. A female saint (prohably St. Genevieve) with casquette 

 nimbus, and some sheep. Here again the background is gilt, 

 except on the hill on which are the sheep This is dark green 

 sprinkled with an ornament formed of five white spots encircling 

 a red spot. This last-named background is of interest as being 

 identical with that which is characteristic of the heads of the 

 Baptist, which Mr. St. John Hope (Archaeologia, vol. Hi, part 2) 

 has shown to have been produced at Nottingham between 1491 

 and 1499. Probably these Mabe alabasters are cotemporary 

 with the beautiful head of St. John at St. Michael's Mount.:}: 

 Height, 5^ inches ; width, 6^ inches. 



3. The Scourging of Christ. This is formed of two 

 fragments (formerly three, but two have been clumsily joined, as 

 may be seen in the illustration). The background of this is 

 partly gilt, ornamented with grouj^s of dots, sometimes in circles 

 of five with a central dot, and sometimes in circles of six without 

 any central dot, and partly green with groups of white and red 

 dots as in No. 2. It may well be that in every case the central 

 dot was once red, and that the colour has rubbed off. The 

 colour on the figures has all disappeared, except that gilt still 

 adheres to the hair and beard of Christ, and that the garments 

 of the scourgers have red linings and traces of gilt edgings. 

 The nimbus of Christ is casquette-shaped, with an ornamentation 

 of white hues on a grey ground, and a general background of 

 red. Height, 1 1 inches ; width, 6 inches. One wire (in lower 

 fragment). 



4. A saint with nimbus in a doorway. (?) Raising of 

 Lazarus. The background is red, the door and hinges brown, 

 the nails and the hne dividing its timbers being a very dark 

 brown with a distinct metallic sheen that suggests that they were 

 once bronze' colour. The door is opened back against a wall of 

 salmon-coloured stones divided by Knes of pale yellow, which 



* I am indebted to Mi-. St. John Hope for this reference and for many- 

 suggestions respecting these fragments generally. 



t i.e. There is that number of latten wire loops affixed to the back. 



J See article on S. Michael's Mount in the last number of this Journal. 



