England
c. 1450
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain
1, A and B: 106.1 x 42.2 (42 x 16 5/8); 2, A and B: 106.1 x 41.8 (42 x 16 1/2)
Very weathered with many mended cracks; quarries disarranged in previous restorations
Provenance: Sir J.B. Lennard Bt., Belhus, Aveley, Essex; Herstmonceaux Castle, Sussex; Roy Grosvenor Thomas, New York; Myron C. Taylor, New York
Bibliography: Thomas Willement, “Drawings of Antient Glass,” vol. 1, London, British Library, Add. MS 34, 866, f. 76, no. 334 (1 A and B); Eden (1933), 171- 173, fig. 172 (1 A); Parke-Bernet Galleries, Estate of Myron C. Taylor of New York [sale cat., November 12-13] (New York, 1960), pt. 4, no. 881; for pieces of the same design: Madeline H. Caviness, ed., “Stained Glass before 1700 in American Collections: New England and New York (Corpus Vitrearum, Checklist I),” Studies in the History of Art 15 (1985), 130 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, ac. nos. 41.170.108-109).
Collection: Bob Jones University Art Museum (Greenville, South Carolina)
Object/Accession: SG.754/1 and 2
1 A. Fiennes family badge on blue ground surrounded by quarries; 1 B. Fiennes family badge on red ground surrounded by quarries 2A. Fiennes family badge on red ground surrounded by quarries; 2B. Fiennes family badge on blue ground surrounded by quarries
Arms: On a mount argent a wolfhound passant argent collared and chained or
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