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- Place of origin:
England, Great Britain (made)
- Date:
1600-1699 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Stained glass
- Credit Line:
Given by Grosvenor Thomas
- Museum number:
C.422-1915
- Gallery location:
In Storage
The letters 'IHS', or the sacred monogram, is the contracted name of Jesus Christ in Greek - 'Iesous Christos'.
In the middle of the period 1500-1600 new techniques for producing decorated glass were introduced. Glass painters used paints known as 'enamels' to paint directly onto the glass, similar to painting onto a canvas. The colours were produced by adding metallic oxides to a ground glass (frit) mixture and the resulting colour range included the delicate pinks, reds and purples shown here.



