Germany, Cologne, destroyed Church of the Maccabees (?)
1505-1525
Pot metal glass and white glass with silver stain and sanguine
162.0 x 52.0 (63 3/4 x 20 1/2) (each light)
There are a few stopgaps in A, B, and D near the edges of the lower panels; most of the leads appear original
Provenance: John Christopher Hampp (?); Sir William Jerningham, Costessey Hall, Norfolk; George William Jerningham, Eighth Baron Stafford; with Roy Grosvenor Thomas; Clarence Hungerford MacKay; William MacKay
Bibliography: Maurice Drake, The Costessey Collection of Stained Glass (Exeter, 1920), 14, nos. 13, 14, pls. VIII, XI (A and B); Elisabeth S. von Witzleben, “Kölner Bibelf enster des l5. Jahrhunderts in Schottland, England und Amerika,” Aachener Kunstbliitter 43 (1972), 228 (?: a Benedict, Catherine, and Barbara, dated 1523, listed in the Christie’s catalogue of 18081 present whereabouts unknown); Janice C. Burgess in Caviness et al. (1978), 70-74, nos. 33-36.
Collection: Portsmouth Abbey (Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
Object/Accession: slype
A. St. George with a couple kneeling; B. St. Peter with a couple kneeling; C. St. Benedict with two shields Arms: (LEFT) Argent quarterly l and 4 two salmon hauriant embowed gules, 2 and 3 escutcheon gules and a label of five points dovetailed argent (Salm? Reifferscheidt); crest: a coronet or surmounted by two horns gules; (RIGHT) party fesswise in chief or two bear’s claws embowed sable impaling barry of four gules and argent in base azure three cinquefoils or (Hoya); crest: a coronet or surmounted by two bear’s claws as in the shield; D. St. Catherine of Alexandria and two shields; Arms: (LEFT) quarterly l and 4 argent a fleur-de-lis gules 2 and 3 barry of six azure and argent in a border gules (Von Flodorf) impaling party fesswise gules and argent in chief three estoiles or (Von Stammheim); crest: the bust of a man in profile couped proper, habited barry of six azure and argent banded about the temple with a ribbon argent; (RIGHT) azure a hart rampant argent horned or, impaling gules a hare rampant argent (unidentified); crest: a stag’s head argent horned or
Inscription: c. S’BENEDICT’ ABBAS
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