Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves (c. 1275–1300): Art, History and Details

Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves (c. 1275–1300) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves
• Date: c. 1275–1300
• Culture: France, Alsace(?), 13th century
• Type: Glass
• Technique: pot-metal and white glass, silver stain
• Dimensions: Overall: 55.9 x 33.4 cm (22 x 13 1/8 in.)
• Collection: MED - Gothic
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1977.89

Collection credit

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

Further reading listed by the museum

• Biro, Yaëlle, Christine E. Brennan, and Christel H. Force. The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York: Defining Taste from Antiquities to the Avant-Garde. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

View the collection record

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