Stool: Detail of the Setúbal Altarpiece, 1520-1530 AD

The wooden stool from the panel with Christ being untied from the Column is lavishly carved with fantastic Renaissance designs including a mermaid. Mermaids were also a favourite design on Elizabethan wood carvings in England.

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