A 17TH CENTURY OAK RELIEF DEPICTING ABRAHAM ABOUT TO BEHEAD HIS SON ISAAC the large central figure of the Patriarch Abraham raising his sword about to behead his naked son as an offering to god, an angel flies through the sky to take the sword from Abraham whilst a ram appears from behind a bush which is to be sacrificed instead, on a stippled ground within a separately carved frame decorated with stylised palmettes and scrolls, 55cm wide x 51cm high