England, Canterbury, Christ Church Cathedral
c. 1175-1180
Pot metal glass
65.0 (without modern edges) x 32.0 (25 5/8 x 12 5/8)
The head is a contemporary stopgap; the nimbus is modern
Provenance: Dr. J. Francis Grayling, Sittingbourne, Kent (d. 1923); Bertram Christian, London (d. 1954); Gerard Kirsopp Lake (d. 1972)
Bibliography: “William Hayes Fogg Art Museum. Appendix II: Loans,” Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments (1940-1941), 18; Caviness et al. (1978), 10-11; Madeline H. Caviness, The Window of Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury [Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain II] (London, 1981), 312-313, figs. 591, 591a.
Additional Bibliography: Purchase noted in One Hundred Fifteenth Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1984 through June 30, 1985 (New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985), 44.
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 1984.232 (Cloisters Collection)
Image Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1984
This piece was originally catalogued in Checklist I, 67, under Massachusetts, Private Collections