The Annunciation

1470-1490

Panel showing the Virgin, dressed in a blue mantle over a red robe with stylized gold flowers, standing beneath a canopy with gold brocaded back. On a desk is a scroll inscribed `Ecce ancilla do[mini]' On the right is a kneeling figure of the donor, a Grey Friar, named Michael; a scroll issuing from his mouth inscribed: 'Miseratrix a[n]i[m]e mychyll ab hoste protege' Above is a pot of lilies with a figure of Christ crucified among the stems; also, in a rayed border, is a a figure of the First Person of the Trinity; near the head of the Virgin is the Dove; on the top of the panel is an estuary or sea-shore with ships. The floor is tiled. The face and hands of the Virgin and the figures of the Persons of the Trinity have been defaced