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Corpus Vitrearum USA

Devoted to scholarly analysis and investigation of Medieval and Renaissance stained glass

Scene from the Life of Thomas Becket

SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF THOMAS BECKETEngland, Canterbury, Christ Church Cathedral, Trinity Chapel, window n. v
c. 1190-1205
Pot metal glass
Diameter: 66-70 (26 x 27 1/2)
There are a good many stopgaps in the lowest quadrant, including an ornamental line which probably replaces an inscription. The original glasses are uniformly corroded.

Provenance: Dr. J. Francis Grayling, Sittingbourne, Kent; Bertram Christian; Arthur Kingsley Porter
Bibliography: Stained Glass 41 (1946), 126 (ill.); Madeline Harrison[Caviness], “A Panel of Thirteenth? Century Stained Glass from Canterbury,” Fogg Art Museum, Acquisitions (1964), 27-33; Caviness, “A Panel of Thirteenth-Century Stained Glass from Canterbury in America,” Antiquaries Journal 45 (1965), 192-199; Caviness, The Early Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral, ca. I I? 5 -1220 (Princeton, 1977), 67-70, col. pl. IV; Caviness et al. (1978), 12-13 and frontispiece; Caviness, The Windows of Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury [Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi : Great Britain II] (London, 1981), 313-314, figs. 592, 592a, 593.

Collection: Harvard University: William Hayes Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Object/Accession: 1928-108

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Entry From: Checklist I Filed Under: Cambridge, Harvard University, Massachusetts, William Hayes Fogg Art Museum

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