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Roundel

15th century (made)
Place of origin

Painted in brown-black pigment and silver stain with the Virgin holding the dead Christ on her lap and with St. Mary Magdalene kneeling to the right and St. John the Evangelist and St. Maqry Cleophas standing at the back, left and right.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stained glass
Brief description
Roundel of clear glass painted in brown-black pigment and silver stain and depicting a Pieta, a Lamentation over the Dead Christ. English, second half of 15th century
Physical description
Painted in brown-black pigment and silver stain with the Virgin holding the dead Christ on her lap and with St. Mary Magdalene kneeling to the right and St. John the Evangelist and St. Maqry Cleophas standing at the back, left and right.
Dimensions
  • Height: 26in
  • Width: 18.875in
  • Framed composite panel height: 602mm (Note: By Cons)
  • Framed composite panel width: 432mm (Note: By Cons)
  • Framed composite panel depth: 32mm (Note: By Cons)
Object history
Purchased from Wilfrid Drake for £50.
(Date?) Note in Register: The treatment of the blood welling from the wound may be compared with that in a shield with the Five Wounds among the fragments in the apse windows of St. Michael's Cathedral, Coventry.
(28 August 1930) Letter from Wilfrid Drake to Bernard Rackham: ... I am interested to hear you consider the XV roundel to be English. This may well be. The recent source, however, would not help us, as it come from a house at Bexley Kent ["Parkhurst", an unimportant house which will probably be demolished]. About eight years ago it was owned by a Mr. Cruikshank - who was evidently an antiquary of taste and knowledge. The glass was evidently collected by him, and the roundel in question was in a bay window together with a Flemish XVI century roundel and some Dutch XVII century panes. There were also some English fragments and Flemish heraldry in various other windows, so evidently the XV century roundel did not originally belong to the house in Kent where I discovered it.
Bibliographic references
  • Registered Papers: 30/6984
  • Rackham, Bernard, brief note, The Collector, November 1930
  • Ayre, Kerry, Medieval English Figurative Roundels, CVMA Great Britain - Summary Catalogue 6, Oxford University Press, 2002, p.75
Collection
Accession number
C.134-1930

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Record createdJune 2, 1998
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