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STAINED GLASS DESIGN FOR 9 ORDERS OF ANGELS WINDOWS

Such a makeshift torse could be a handkerchief, a ribbon or even the lady’s sleeve, twisted into a rope and worn around the helmet. The colours in the coil were the same as the wearer’s livery colours except, it seems, when the knight wore a lady’s favour.

In heraldic terms, the torse – introduced in the late C14 – is described as the cloth circlet intended to hide the join between the ornate tournament crest and the helmet. The knight’s squire also wears one for decoration while the knight himself probably wears one inside the helmet for comfort. Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Cavalieredicasata, to which I added the arrow pointing to the torse. Knight with an eagle crest at the Saracen Joust in Arezzo, Tuscany. The glass was made in the mid C15 in the Norwich workshop of Alderman John Wighton, who was succeeded by John Moundford of Utrecht (assisted by his wife), followed in turn by Moundford’s son John. So, the ‘Essex’ angel may well have been recycled from a Norfolk church and was almost certainly painted in Norwich.ĭavid King, the authority on Norwich School glass, detected the ‘hand’ of at least three artists responsible for painting the east window of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich. Simon Knott pointed out that the glass in All Saints, Feering, Essex was a loose collection of English and Continental 15th to 18th century pieces brought together by Father Bundock, who died in 1989. A double tragus is a developmental rarity, yet both the ‘Essex’ and the Norfolk angels share this distinguishing feature. I hope regular readers will forgive me banging on but this lug flap is known as the tragus. One stylistic tic uniting glass from various Norfolk churches with the figures drawn in the great east window of Norwich’s St Peter Mancroft (the benchmark for Norfolk painted glass) was the double flap covering the entrance to the ear. The exactness of the match suggested they were copied from the same template, meaning they were from the same workshop. In my first blog post, I found that it was possible to overlay the East Barsham head on top of other Norfolk C15 painted-glass angels.

hardcover ISBN 978-1-62640-045-0 $60.C15 painted angel from All Saints, Feering, Essex.

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STAINED GLASS DESIGN FOR 9 ORDERS OF ANGELS WINDOWS

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