A Cologne stained glass roundel with John the Baptist - image-1

Lot 1100 Dα

A Cologne stained glass roundel with John the Baptist

Auction 1117 - overview Cologne
16.11.2018, 16:30 - Selected Works of Art
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 13.640 € (incl. premium)
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A Cologne stained glass roundel with John the Baptist

Round glass panel painted in grisaille depicting a full-length figure of Saint John draped in an animal skin. He stands on a tiled floor against a wall holding a book with the lamb of God in one hand. The figures of the donor and his two sons are shown kneeling in the foreground beside a shield with the Bourbon lily and the initials "IC". The scene is encompassed by a banderole with an indistinct inscription. In an ebonised wood frame (cracked) D 28.8 cm.
1st third 16th C.

Literature

Vgl. die Köln zugeschriebenen Scheiben in der Wörlitzer Sammlung bei Ruoss/Giesicke, Die Glasgemälde im Gotischen Haus zu Wörlitz, Berlin 2012, Fig. 564 ff., XXIX, 6.