Mother of pearl and olivewood devotional objects were made in Jerusalem in large quantities as tourism to the Holy Land took off in the late 19th and early 20th century. The panel offered by Hawleys, East Yorkshire on 26th November, measuring an impressive 3ft (90cm) high and depicts a range of subjects form the Passion Cycle including the Last Supper, the Resurrection and the Ascension.
It had been a gift to an Anglican order by the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem to mark a visit to the Holy City in the 1920s and until 2007 had been displayed in the chapel at Laleham House, the Surrey Palladian style manor that became a convent. Although a niche and international market, pieces of this calibre can command five figure sums, despite some areas of damage, it was guided at £5000-8000 and sold at £19,500 to an online bidder.
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