Grisaille Fragment with Plant Motif

1220–72

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 303

Painted in grisaille (shades of grey) in a style associated with the mid-1200s in France, these fragments are among numerous remnants of the elaborate glass windows that once decorated Castle Montfort/Starkenberg. One shows the nose and eye of a human face; the others display portions of vines with fleur-de-lis terminals.

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Title: Grisaille Fragment with Plant Motif
Date: 1220–72
Culture: Crusader
Medium: Stained Glass
Dimensions: 2 1/8 × 1 3/4 × 3/16 in. (5.4 × 4.4 × 0.4 cm)
Classification: Glass-Stained
Credit Line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928
Object Number: 28.99.651
Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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