Currier, Janice Arlee2014-07-312014-07-3119942014-07-31http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5501Sculpted alabaster tablets depicting the head of St. John the Baptist on a charger, such as the Spilsbury alabaster now in the collection of the University of Victoria's Maltwood Museum and Gallery, were produced in large numbers in fifteenth-century England. Important as examples of private devotional art, they were probably first made as minor works subsidiary to alabaster monument and altarpiece production.enAlabaster sculptureEnglandMedieval, 500-1500True to God and King: Alabaster Heads of St. John in Late Medieval EnglandAlabaster Heads of St. John in Late Medieval EnglandThesisAvailable to the World Wide Web