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Corpus Vitrearum USA

Devoted to scholarly analysis and investigation of Medieval and Renaissance stained glass

St. Adrian of Nicomedia

ST. ADRIAN OF NICOMEDIAGermany, Cologne (?), or South Lowlands
1510-1525
Pot metal glass and white glass with silver stain, some a double application
186.5 x 59.0 (73 3/8 x 23 1/4)
The upper part of the anvil, with the hammer, and the hind part of the lion are replacements

Provenance: Stoke Pages Manor, Buckinghamshire, to 1799; Stoke Pages, St. Giles’ Church, north aisle; with P. W. French & Co., New York, 1929; William Randolph Hearst
Bibliography: George Lipscomb, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, vol. 4 (London, 1847), 5 68; N. H. J. Westlake, A History of Design in Painted Glass, vol. 4 (London, 1894), 63-64, pl. LI a and b; Art Objects and Furnishings from the William Randolph Hearst Collection; Catalogue Raisonné [sale cat., Hammer Galleries] (New York, 1941), 330, no. 66-1; Caviness et al. (1978), 78-79, no. 38.

Collection: Woodman Higgins Armory Museum (Worcester, Massachusetts)
Object/Accession: 2728

Inscription: O SANTE Ê A […] ANE ORA Ê?PRO […]

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Entry From: Checklist I Filed Under: Massachusetts, Woodman Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester

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