Seated on an elaborately carved Gothic throne, the Madonna inclines her head toward the Christ Child. She raises her hand to reach for a white rose, symbol of purity, that her son offers to her form the small basket on his lap. This painting was the central panel of a now dissasembled signed and dated alterpiece by Niccolò di Buonaccorso, one of the most accomplished masters active in Siena in the second half of the fourteenth century. The size and lavishness of the panel suggests that the whole altarpiece was an expensive commission of some importance and prestige, possibly for the high alter of a church or private chapel.