St. Adrian of Nicomedia, between 1510 and 1525

  • German

Pot metal glass, transparent glass, vitreous paint, silver stain, lead cames, lead-tin solder, metal frame, copper wire

  • Overall: 73 1/2 × 23 1/4 inches (186.7 × 59.1 cm)

Museum Purchase, Funds from Robert H. Tannahill Foundation

2014.35

Inscribed, as part of composition: O•SANTE•A...ENE ORA•PRO...

Church of Saint Giles (Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England)

removed by Colonel Shaw (Stoke Poges Manor, England) in exchange for private vestibule

May 16, 1926, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) Fine Early German Glass

valuable English and French Furniture, lot 49

acquired through (French and Company, Bronx, New York, USA) by William Randolph Hearst

1941, sold by (Gimbel Bros., New York, New York, USA) Art Objects and Furnishings from the William Randolph Hearst Collection

1943, John Woodman Higgins

Higgins Armory Museum, 2728

May 7, 2014, sold by (Thomas Del Mar Ltd., in association with Sotheby's, London, England) John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, lot 316

(Sam Fogg, London, England)

2014-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

You, Yao-Fen. “New Observations Concerning the Stoke Poges Windows.” Revista de História da Arte 3 (2015): pp. 153–164. Darr, Alan Phipps, Yao-Fen You, and Megan Reddicks. “Recent Acquisitions (2007–15) of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” The Burlington Magazine 158 (June 2016): 501–512, p. 502 (ill.).

German, St. Adrian of Nicomedia, between 1510 and 1525, pot metal glass, transparent glass, vitreous paint, silver stain, lead cames, lead-tin solder, metal frame, copper wire. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Funds from Robert H. Tannahill Foundation, 2014.35.