Window with Grisaille Decoration in the Cloisters, Sept. 2007

Window with Grisaille Decoration
Pot-metal and colorless glass, with silver stain and vitreous paint
France, Normandy, Rouen, 1320-1330

Accession Numbers: 1984.199.1-.11; 48.183.2

The five panels assembled here come from at least four different lancets of the choir windows at Saint-Ouen at Rouen. They incorporate three different patterns of stylized leaves and tendrils, one with silver-stained blossoms, and three different strap work designs in four combinations. All are known to have originated in this glazing program. The botanical theme is continued in the border pattern and in three of the central bosses or fermaillets. The combination of grisaille, silver stain, and colored glass is typical of 14th century French stained glass.

Text from the Cloisters label.