Switzerland or Germany
Late 16th or early 17th century
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain
A: 43.5 x 36.5 (17 1/8 x 14 3/8) B: 44 x 36 (17 5/16 x 14 3/16)
A. Minor stopgaps; B. many restorations and stopgaps including inscriptions
Provenance: John W. Palmer, London, to 1923; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1941; (A) Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, to 1958; (B) K.T. Keller, to 1958
Bibliography: The Collection of Stained Glass Panels by XV and XVI Century Artists Assembled by the late John W. Palmer [sale cat., American Art Association, Inc., 17 December] (New York, 1923), n.p., no. 47, 48, ill.
Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan)
Object/Accession: A. 58.95, Gift of Mrs. Edsel B. Ford; B. 58.118, Gift of K.T. Keller
Arms: (Centers of A and B) Azure, three fleur-de-lis or (France, Modern); surrounded by the collar of the Order of St. Michael and ensigned with a closed crown
Borders: (from dexter base) A: Argent a cross azure (Noyon); gules a fleur-de-lis or (Soissons); gules three cinquefoils or pierced argent on a chief azure three fleur-de-lis or (city of Orleans); gules three keys in fesse or (city of Avignon); or a lion rampant sable (Flanders); azure three towers or (unidentified); B: Gules a cross calvary or (unidentified); azure a bend sinister argent cotised potent-counterpotent or (Champagne); argent a cross between four keys in pale gules (Beauvais); azure a cross argent between four fleur-de-lis or (Chiilons-sur-Marne); gules a tau cross flory or (Toul); azure a fess argent between three bezants (Cherbourg ?)
Inscriptions: top center: Mont loy e S. Denis; top sides: Anno Dni/ Mccccxc comp. v.j.; bottom: Insign regu [.]pido[.]u francoru