A good pair of late 15th/early 16th century carved oak panels, French/West Country, circa 1500 - 1520


Each carved with a female saint, standing atop a moulded plinth on a tapering shaft, a pair of grotesque masks below, one panel carved with a female figure - possibly St. Ursula - clutching her skirts in one hand, a banner in the other, beneath a meandering and encircling branch of four-petal roses, and a leaf, the other with a female figure - possibly St. Margaret - pointing skywards with one hand, her other clutching part of the girdle at her waist, beneath an encircling vine with bunches of overhanging grapes, 21cm wide x 48cm high, (2)