This richly coloured panel, designed by Ford Madox Brown, depicts the Old Testament encounter between Melchizedek, priest-king of Salem, and Abraham (Genesis 14:18–20). Melchizedek stands at the right, vested as a high priest, offering bread and wine—a scene long understood by Christian theologians as a prefiguration of the Eucharist. His white dalmatic is embroidered with symbolic lambs, and he holds a gilded chalice in one hand and a loaf in the other.

Abraham kneels on the left, shown as a weathered warrior returning from battle. Brown emphasizes his physical exertion through the bent knee, drawn sword, shield, and tense musculature. The angularity of Abraham’s armour and the dramatic, expressive posture are characteristic of Brown’s stained-glass figure design: powerful, sculptural, and markedly different from the more ethereal and elongated style of Burne-Jones.

The border inscription reads:
"Accipe et comede hunc fortis manus domini"
(“Take and eat this, O strong one of the hand of the Lord”).