Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves

Description

This stained glass panel is decorated in a grisaille (monochromatic) technique but also includes a colored border using pot-metal glass. The original source of the glass is unknown. The ban of 1134 by the Cistercian Order against using figural art and brightly colored glass suggests this panel may derive from a window in one of that order’s churches. This is the earliest stained glass in the museum’s collection.

Provenance

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Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves

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c. 1275–1300

Accession Number

1977.89

Medium

pot-metal and white glass, silver stain

Dimensions

Overall: 55.9 x 33.4 cm (22 x 13 1/8 in.)

Classification

Glass

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Ella Brummer in Memory of her Husband, Ernest Brummer