Panel
15th century (made)
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The stained glass panel here is compsed of pieces of coloured and decorated glass that originally came from different windows. The Victoria & Albert Museum had been given a large panel of various, unrelated, fragments by the stained glass collector Henry Vaughan in 1900. This large panel was subsequently broken up and reframed with other fragments for the purpose of displaying interesting pieces of 15th century glass decorated in English workshops.
England had a rich tradition of stained glass in the Middle Ages but the political and religious upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries destroyed a great deal and much only survives in a fragmentary state.
The central image on this panel is of an angel playing a trapezoidal psaltery. Such musical instrument-playing angels often formed part of scenes of the Last Judgement. The psaltery was a very popular stringed instrument in the Middle Ages. The instrument is held against the chest and is either plucked with the fingers, as appears here, or with a plectrum.
England had a rich tradition of stained glass in the Middle Ages but the political and religious upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries destroyed a great deal and much only survives in a fragmentary state.
The central image on this panel is of an angel playing a trapezoidal psaltery. Such musical instrument-playing angels often formed part of scenes of the Last Judgement. The psaltery was a very popular stringed instrument in the Middle Ages. The instrument is held against the chest and is either plucked with the fingers, as appears here, or with a plectrum.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stained glass |
| Brief description | Composite panel of clear, coloured and flashed glass painted with brown/black pigment and silver (yellow) stain. The original panel of miscellaneous fragments was broken up and the fragments were re-set into three different panels. This panel contains the image of an angel playing a psaltery. English, 15th century. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mr Henry Vaughan |
| Summary | The stained glass panel here is compsed of pieces of coloured and decorated glass that originally came from different windows. The Victoria & Albert Museum had been given a large panel of various, unrelated, fragments by the stained glass collector Henry Vaughan in 1900. This large panel was subsequently broken up and reframed with other fragments for the purpose of displaying interesting pieces of 15th century glass decorated in English workshops. England had a rich tradition of stained glass in the Middle Ages but the political and religious upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries destroyed a great deal and much only survives in a fragmentary state. The central image on this panel is of an angel playing a trapezoidal psaltery. Such musical instrument-playing angels often formed part of scenes of the Last Judgement. The psaltery was a very popular stringed instrument in the Middle Ages. The instrument is held against the chest and is either plucked with the fingers, as appears here, or with a plectrum. |
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| Accession number | 928:2-1900 |
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| Record created | May 19, 1998 |
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