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Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter

CHRIST PRESENTING THE KEYS TO SAINT PETERGermany, Cologne (?)
c. 1315-1320
Pot metal glass
71.7 x 34.5 (28 1/4 x 13 5/8) (each)
Some replacements in architectural canopies

Provenance: Grosvenor Thomas, London
Bibliography: James J. Rorimer, “Fourteenth-Century Stained Glass,” The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art o.s. 24, no. 5 (May 1929), 130-131; Hans Wentzel, Meisterwerke der Glasmälerei, 2nd ed. rev. (Berlin, 1954), 107; MMAB (1971-1972), 123.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 29.5 5.1 and 2 (Medieval Department)

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