Germany, Cologne (?)
c. 1460-1470
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain
103 x 56.7 (40 1/2 X 22 3/8)
Several unmended breaks; some replacements and stopgaps
Provenance: George William Jerningham, Eighth Baron Stafford, Costessey Hall, Norfolk; Grosvenor Thomas, London; Thomas and Drake, New York
Bibliography: Grosvenor Thomas Stock Book no. I, 284-285, item no. 45; Grosvenor Thomas and Maurice Drake, The Costessey Collection of Stained Glass Formerly in the Possession of George William Jerningham (Exeter, 1920), 11, no. 45; Orin E. Skinner, “Stained Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art,” Stained Glass 31, no. 2 (1936), 43-45; Elisabeth von Witzleben, “Kölner Bibelfenster des 15. Jahrhunderts in Schottland, England und Amerika,” Aachener Kunstbli:itter 43 (I972), 246; The Toledo Museum of Art, A Guide to the Glass Collections: Art in Glass (Toledo, 1969), 44. Related material: Herbert Rode, Die mittelalterlichen Glasmälereien des Kölner Domes [Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Germany IV, part I] (Berlin, 1974), 37, 149ff., esp. 158-159 (5b), Abb. 382-383.
Collection: The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, Ohio)
Object/Accession: 26.6
Inscriptions: INRI; on scroll: vere fylius dei erat iste