Stylistic analysis shows similarities with his San Giovenale Triptych, an early work of the painter from 1422, and the birth tray is dated a short time after it at around 1423.

It takes place on the ground floor of a well-to-do contemporary house, a palace with white and black stone facings in a very modern style for Tuscan architecture.

There is an arcade of round arches on Corinthian columns leading to a garden, with a courtyard at left, where the banners attached to the trumpets giving a fanfare inform us that the event takes place in Florence: a red lily on white ground.

Inside the bedroom are four women who care for her and the child, who is wrapped in white cloth swaddling with a piece of coral hung around its neck as a dummy, and for later use in teething.

Usually the reverse face is of a simpler design than the upper side and shows the family coat of arms; here there was one, or the two parental ones, at the top but the paint has largely gone in that area.