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Fragment of a Bishop Saint

FRAGMENT OF A BISHOP SAINTGermany, Rhineland, or Lowlands
c. 1520-1530
Pot metal glass, white glass with silver stain and sanguine
43.0 x 37.5 (16 7/8 x 14 3/4)
The red damask ground, forming a cusp, is a replacement, as is the top of the crozier and the lower part of the blue mantle. The right part of the inscription and the tiled ground is a stopgap.

Provenance: Paris studio of Arthur Rotch (d. 1894); gift of Mrs. Horatio A. Lamb, his sister
Bibliography: Caviness et al. I1978), 99.

Collection: MIT: Rotch Library (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Object/Accession: window III

Inscription: S / LA BEIT

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