Maker(s): | Unknown
| Culture: | Austrian
| Title: | Heraldic Panel of Christan Tobias Kirchmayer von Ragen
| Date Made: | 1648
| Type: | Stained Glass
| Materials: | uncolored glass, vitreous paint, silver stain, blue, green, purple and beige enamels
| Measurements: | panel: 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.; 26.67 x 26.67 cm
| Accession Number: | AC 2018.230
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
| Museum Collection: | Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description: ID))): This stained glass pane features a circular coat of arms at its center, set against a peach-color circular backdrop and framed within a clear octagonal border with a yellow floral pattern. The coat of arms consists of a shield in the lower part, divided into quadrants, each displaying different heraldic symbols, such as two arms holding either a black arrowhead or black feathers and blocks. Above the shield are two armor helmets with visors and gold crowns: on top of the right one are arms holding an arrowhead, and on the other stand black and white feathers. Surrounding the shield's left side are blue and gold voluminous floral and feather-like designs, while the right has the same designs in black and white. The roundel has an inscription in Gothic script with the date "Anno 1648" around its white circumference. (Skyla Monroe '27)
Heraldry: Kirchmayer von Ragen: Quarterly, 1 and 4 two arms proper couped and attired or holding a spearhead sable, 2 and 3 per fess sable and argent in base a triple mount sable; crest: to dexter from a ducal coronet issuant a pair of arms as the field, to sinister on a ducal coronet a triple mount as the field and there from three feathers sable and argent.
Inscription: Christan Tobiass Kirchmayr von Ragen Leitenampt Anno 1648 (Christan Tobias Kirchmayr von Ragen, Lieutenant, the year 1648)
Label Text: The panel displays the coat of arms of Kirchmayer von Ragen, a noble Tyrolean family. Their arms combine two main elements: human arms holding a black spearhead, and a black triple mount against a white background, with a horizontal black band running on top. The inscription indicates that the donor was a lieutenant, which could mean either a military rank or a deputy position in the political sphere.
Maria Timina, 2025
Tags: decoration and ornament; shape; symbolism; symmetry; text; leaves; headdresses; circles; feathers; geometry; hands Link to share this object record: https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+2018.230 |