St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read

This piece belongs to the MNAA’s collection of mediaeval English alabasters, consisting of fifteen plaques and six sculpted figures. Mass produced by the workshops of the Midlands, a region that had Nottingham at its centre, these images were imported in significant quantities, in a cultural context that saw Portugal drawing closer to England, a tendency that was rendered official by the marriage between Dom João I and Philippa of Lancaster in 1387.