Images(5)

stained glass

Object NameGrisaille Lancet

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1200-about 1260

Place MadeFrance

TechniquePainted, stained, leaded

SizeOverall H: 248.5 cm, W: 59.7 cm

Accession Number51.3.228

Curatorial Area(s)

Not On View

Physical DescriptionGrisaille Lancet. Sapphire-blue and pale aquamarine glass, grisaille painted, yellow stained, and leaded to form three nearly square sections and one with a high pointed-arched side. The whole forming a tall narrow Gothic window; geometric design: down center, flower-like quatrefoil and circle motif -- four brown petals with three-leaf clover-like motif and extending from brown and aquamarine cinquefoil motif with crosshatched circle at center, sapphire-blue segments of circle between petals; quatrefoils and circle motif at center of interlacing large aquamarine-bordered quatrefoils which alternate with large diamonds, semicircles interlaced with side lobes; overall design of aquamarine oak leaves (on square sections) and ivy-like leaves (at top) on crosshatched field, formed by brown lines; border of alternate sapphire-blue rectangle of varied lengths and yellow-bordered rectangular motif having small yellow quatrefoil in yellow- bordered brown diamonds; outer border of very narrow aquamarine rectangles.
Provenance

Source A. M. Adler - 1951-02-27

Former Collection Roy Grosvenor Thomas - 1951