France, Poitou (?)
15th century
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain
160 x 50 (63 x 19 3/4)
Slight patina on interior, especially on white pieces; approximately ten new pieces in canopy; green damask ground at lower right is new; canopy not original to donor panel
Provenance: Grosvenor Thomas, London; Henry C. Lawrence, New York, to 1921; A. Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York
Bibliography: Drake (1913), II: 3, no. 2a; Collection of a Well-known Connoisseur, a Noteworthy Gathering of Gothic and Other Ancient Art Collected by the Late Mr. Henry C. Lawrence of New York [sale cat., American Art Association, 27-29 January] (New York, 1921), no. 383, ill.; Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46 (June 1959), “Annual Report 1958,” cover.
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio)
Object/Accession: 21.106 Dudley P. Allen Fund
Inscriptions: (ON SCROLL) miserere mei deus; (LOWER RIGHT) rector de melle; (BOTTOM) oficialis de rocher sacroisanc