Armorial panel
Panel
late 15th century to 16th century (made)
late 15th century to 16th century (made)
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| Place of origin |
Panel. Arms of the Dukes of Burgundy. Grosvenor Thomas collection.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Title | Armorial panel |
| Materials and techniques | Stained glass |
| Brief description | Panel depicting the arms of the Dukes of Burgundy |
| Physical description | Panel. Arms of the Dukes of Burgundy. Grosvenor Thomas collection. |
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| Gallery label | Stained Glass Panels from the Chapel of the Holy Blood
Probably about 1496
These panels depict the armorials associated with the Dukes of Burgundy and their Hapsburg successors. Two of the armorials commemorate the marriages between Maximilian of Hapsburg and Mary, Duchess of Burgundy and also that of their son Philip the Fair and his wife Joanna, heiress to the Kingdom of Spain.
Maximilian probably commissioned these windows to honour his wife's devotion to the Holy Blood and to publicise his dynastic succession to the Dukes of Burgundy.
Flanders, Bruges
Clear and coloured glass with painted details and silver stain; with later restorations
Museum nos.C.443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448-1918
Purchased from Grosvenor Thomas from the Capt. HB Murray Bequest(2008 (TAB)) |
| Object history | Reconstruction of the windows in the Chapel of the Holy Blood: Were 9 windows of two lights each. 19th replacements Window 7: Emperor Maximilian & Mary of Burgundy Window 8: Charles the Bold and Isabel of Bourbon Window 9: Charles V and Isabella of Portugal From the archives of the Confraternity of the Holy Blood – payments for glazing were recorded in 1483 and in 1496. The ancient glass disappeared during the French invasion of 1797. The glass from the Chapel was sold by the municipality of Bruges to a local man for a miniscule sum who then sold them, at great profit, to an English man in the early 19th century. Believe the glass ended up with firm of Watson & Bethell. There are coloured drawings of the windows, pre-dispersal, in the Chapel archives. In 1845 reproductions of the panels were made from these drawings by the glass painter Pluys. In 1913 they were owned by Grosvenor Thomas. He acquired them from Kilburn Grange which was erected after 1830. Rackham, in a letter of 1921, says panels were previously in Kilburn Grange which had been pulled down 10 or 12 years ago [presumably meaning 1909 or 1911]. The family of Major Cecil Peters of Sunbury Manor, Sunbury in Middlesex, formerly owned Kilburn Grange. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.445-1918 |
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| Record created | August 4, 1998 |
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