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Corpus Vitrearum USA

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A King and Army on Horseback

A King and Army on HorsebackFrance, Abbey of Saint-Denis, Crusading Window (?)
c. 1146-1148 or c. 1158
Pot metal glass
78.1 x 78.6 (30 3/4 x 30 15/16); diameter of medieval core: 49-50 (19 1/2)
Fillets and surrounding ornament are modern; some replacements (both medieval and modern) within medallion

Provenance: L_on Bonnat, Paris; Dikran Kelekian, Paris
Bibliography: François de Guilhermy, “D_tails historiques. Saint-Denis, 1840-1872,” Paris, Biblioth_que nationale, MS nouv. acq. fr. 6121, fol. 89r; Ferdinand de Lasteyrie, Histoire de la peinture sur verre d’apres Jes monuments en France (Paris, 1853-1857) 1: pl. III; Grodecki (1976), 69, 115-121, ills. 176, 177, 181; Grodecki (1977), 94, 290; Jane Hayward in Crosby et al. (1981), 94-95; Jane Hayward in Hayward and Cahn (1982), 90-92; Sauerländer (1982), 386; Louis Grodecki, “Un Signum Tau a Saint-Denis,” in M_langes Jacques Stiennon (Liege, 1983), 342; Marie-Madeleine Gautier, Les routes de la foi. Reliques et reliquaires de J_rusalem a Compostelle (Paris, 1983), 52; Madeline H. Caviness in Gerson (1986), 259; Brown and Cothren (1986), l-40, pls. l-5, 10; Cothren

Collection: The Glencairn Museum (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania)
Object/Accession: (1986A), 417, fig. 25.

03.SG.156
Inscription: VIP/IAN/VSIN (stopgaps)

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Entry From: Checklist II Filed Under: Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, The Glencairn Museum

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