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Two Prophets From a Tree of Jesse Window

TWO PROPHETS FROM A TREE OF JESSE WINDOWFrance, Picardie (Oise)
1240-1250
Pot metal glass
51.0 x 36.2 (20 1/8 x 14 1/4) (each)
Head of A replaced, borders added in both panels

Provenance: George D. Pratt, Glen Cove, N.Y.
Bibliography: BMMA (1926), 294; MMAB (1971- 1972), 116-117; Michael Cothren in Caviness et al. (1978), 23; Cothren, “The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Glazing of the Choir of the Cathedral of Beauvais” (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1980), 54-55 and 81-84; Cothren, “The Saint John the Baptist Window from Breuil-le-Vert (Oise): An Example of Iconographic and Stylistic Regionalism in the Second Quarter of the Thirteenth Century,” in Studies on Medieval Stained Glass, nn. 15 and 17.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 26.218.2 and 3 (Medieval Department)

Inscriptions: meaningless

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