Composition featuring a Seated Madonna and Child and St. Germanus of Auxerre

The Virgin is seated on a stone bench resembling a sarcophagus with a tower and trees in the background; she holds the Christ Child on her lap as he plays with a beaded rosary. On the right, another roundel features St. Germanus, who was an imperial governor in Gaul, at Auxerre, then part of the Roman empire. He made the first of perhaps several consequential visits to Britain in 429, during a period of warfare with invading continental tribes. Here he is shown standing wearing his bishop's mitre and holding a crozier with classical architecture in the background.