Forget looking behind the couch cushions for spare change, I'm off to the neighborhood almshouse.
From the Telegraph, December 5:
Sale of 15th-century artwork will be ‘transformative’ for funding social housing in Dorset town
An almshouse has sold a 15th-century triptych that’s been on display in its chapel for five centuries for £5.7m.
The three-panelled altarpiece depicting five miracles of Christ has hung at St Johns’ Almshouse in Sherborne, Dorset, since before the Reformation.
It has remained in place perfectly preserved through hundreds of years of religious persecution and political turbulence.
During refurbishment work at the site next to Sherborne Abbey in the spring, the piece was removed for safekeeping and appraised by experts in medieval Flemish art at Sotheby’s.
The perfectly preserved central panel shows Christ performing a miracle Credit: BNPS
Richard Hunt, chairman of the almshouse trustees, said they were “thrilled” to see the painting’s importance recognised by bidders at the auction house in London on Wednesday....
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