Germany, Boppard on Rhine, Carmelite Church, north nave, Ten Commandments window
c. 1445
Pot metal, white glass, and silver stain
l-7b, total height: 357.0 (140 1/4); l-7c, total height: 357.2 (140 7/8); l-2c: 106.7 x 71.0 (42 x 28); l-2b: 107.8 x 72.0 (42 1/2 x 28 3/8); 3-4c: 106.7 x 71.0 (42 x 28); 3-4b: 106.7 x 71.0 (42 x 28)
Original cusped heads of lancets filled out with modern glass; some restored pieces in all panels
Provenance: Count Hermann Pückler, Muskau; Friedrich Spitzer, Paris; Ogden Goelet; Robert Goelet, Newport
Bibliography: T. Prufer, “Corfenst er aus der fruheren Carmeliterkirche zu Boppard,/1 Archiv fur christliche Baukunst und Kirchenschmuck 2 (1877), 42-43; Catalogue des objets d’art et de haute curiosité composant l’importante et précieuse collection Spitzer [sale cat., 33 rue de Villejust, 17 April-16 June] (Paris, 1893), supplement, “Vitraux, /1 lot nos. 3364 and 3366; Heinrich Oidtmann, Die rheinischen Glasmälereien vom 12. bis zum 16. fahrhundert, 2 vols. (Dusseldorf, 1912 and 1929), 1:228-233, 2:274-276; Hermann Schmitz, Die Glasgemiilde des koniglichen Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1913), 1:41-45; Hans Wentzel, “Unbekannte mittelalterliche Glasmälereien der Burrell Collection zu Glasgow (3. Teil),” Panth eon 19, no. 5 (September? October 1961), 240-248; William Wells, “Stained Glass from Boppard? on-Rhine in the Burrell Collection,” The Scottish Art Review 101 no. 3 (1966), 22-25; Jane Hayward, “Stained-Glass Windows from the Carmelite Church at Boppard-am-Rhein, A Reconstruction of the Glazing Program of the North Nave,” Metropolitan Museum Journal 2 (1969), 75-114; Brigitte Lymant, Die Glasmälereien des Schnutgen-Museums: Bestandskatalog (Cologne, 1982), 104-108.
Collection: Private Collections (, Rhode Island)
Object/Accession: lights b and c
1-2c. The commandment against unchastity; 1-2b. The commandment against thievery; 3-4c. The commandment against coveting the goods of others; 3-4b. The commandment against coveting the wife of another
Inscriptions: l -2C. DU SOLT NUT UNKUIS SIN; l-2b. DU SOLT NIEMAN GU!T STELLEN; 3-4c. DU SOLT KEIN UNREHT GUT BEGEREN; 3-4b. DU SOLT NIEMA S EL!CG WIP BEGERN
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