Adam's The History Sale Tuesday 24th April 2018

45 The History Sale confirming that the stone head is a portrait of Queen Catherine deValois. What convinced Hickey that the head may have been that of Catherine deValois was it’s undeniable similarity to a life size painted wood and wax effigy carried at her funeral, when she was still a young woman, and preserved to this day atWestminster Abbey. Because her tenure as Queen was so short, less than two years, images of Catherine are rare. While the depiction of English royal subjects in Gothic windows within the Pale where loyalty to reigning kings and their consorts is understandable, particularly at what was a time of vigorous Gaelic resurgence across the rest of the country, the questions of the origin and nationality of the carver remain to be explored.