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Composite Trefoil Headed Light

Composite Trefoil Headed Light
A. (lower) Canonized abbot standing with crosier and book; B. (top) Fragment of a canopy with an angel
England, Hampton Court, Herefordshire
1420-1435
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain
A: 80.2 x 47.5 (31 5/8 x 18 3/4)
B: 31.0 x 47.0 (12 3/8 x 18 1/2)
A few replacements and stopgaps; top section an addition from the same series

Provenance: Roy Grosvenor Thomas, New York (bought 1923); John Gellatly, New York, N.Y. (1924/1925-1929)
Bibliography: Roy Grosvenor Thomas, typescript, 1924, Department of European and Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Boston Museum; Grosvenor Thomas Stock Book no. 1, 212-213, item nos. 1265a (A) and (?) 1265b (B); Charles G. Robinson, The Mansions and Manors of Herefordshire (Hereford, 1873), 145; Bulletin of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts 26 (1928), 98, 100; Madeline H. Caviness, “Fifteenth Century Stained Glass from the Chapel of Hampton Court, Herefordshire: The Apostles’ Creed and Other Subjects,” Walpole Society Publications 42 (1970), 38, pl. 35c; John Cornforth, “Hampton Court, Herefordshire—III,” Country Life (8 March 1973), 584.

Collection: National Museum of American Art (District of Columbia)
Object/Accession: 1929.8.361
Image Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Entry From: Checklist II Filed Under: District of Columbia, National Museum of American Art

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