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The Murder of Three Clerics

The Murder of Three ClericsFrance, Santeny (Val de Mame), Saint Nicholas Window
c. 1230
Pot metal glass
75.5 x 59 (29 3/4 x 23 1/4)
Outside fillet restored; fine, dense pitting

Provenance: M. Navarre, Auxerre (?); Lucien Demotte, Paris
Bibliography: Demotte [1929], no. 12; Lucien J. Demotte, “The Pitcairn Collection,” Formes 28-29 (932), 307-308; Jane Hayward in Gómez-Moreno (1968), no. 191; Jane Hayward in Hayward and Cahn (1982), 209-211; Catherine Brisac, “Une verrière du XIIIe siécle récemment découverte en Ile de France,” Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (in press).

Collection: The Glencairn Museum (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania)
Object/Accession: 03.SG.14

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