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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:German (?)
Title:Armorial Panel
Date Made:17th century (?)
Type:Stained Glass
Materials:glass
Measurements:panel: 8 3/4 x 14 1/2 in.; 22.225 x 36.83 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2018.225
Credit Line:Gift of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
This stained glass pane features a coat of arms centered in an hexagonal frame. The crest includes a golden crown centered in a blue shield, surrounded by voluminous blue and gold acanthus leaves. Below the crown is a blank scroll and three mountain-like objects. Above the shield is the head of a knight in armor wearing a gold crown. Above the head is a blue rampant lion sticking out their red tongue holding out a gold crown. Behind the lion are two blue and gold trumpet-like instruments. Outside of the top and bottom border of the hexagon are rectangles. Inside the rectangles are yellow flowers within a circle at the center of a yellow arch. At the top and bottom border of the hexagonal frame is a white border with a yellow crown at the center of the leaves. At the sides of the hexagonal frame are vertical yellow vines. (Skyla Monroe '27)

Tags:
decoration and ornament; design; royalty; symbolism; worship; narrative; flowers; symmetry; devils; leaves

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