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**A STAINED GLASS PANEL OF ST ADRIAN OF NICOMEDIA
**A STAINED GLASS PANEL OF ST ADRIAN OF NICOMEDIA, PROBABLY FLEMISH OR GERMAN EARLY 16TH CENTURY AND LATER
the armoured figure holding an anvil and a sword, a lion at his feet
186.5 cm x 59 cm; 73 ½ in x 23 ¼ in
Provenance
Stoke Poges Manor, Buckinghamshire, to 1799
Saint Giles Church, North Aisle, Stoke Poges
Col. Shaw, Stoke Poges Manor; sold, 'Early Stained Glass, Fine Antique Rugs and Carpets, Woodwork and Carvings, and Valuable Old English and French Furniture, etc.,' Sotheby & Co., London, 16 May 1929, lot 49, Lionel Harris, Spanish Art Gallery, London; French & Co., New York, 1929
William Randolph Hearst collection (No.66-1); sold Gimbel Brothers, New York, 16 August 1943
Literature
George Lipscomb, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, IV, London, 1857, p.568
Madeline H. Caviness (ed), Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass from New England Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978, p.79
See the Detroit Institute of Art, Accession No. 58.111, for what appears to be a companion window to this, depicting St Wencelas.
JWHA Inv. No. 2728
Sold for £19,000
**A STAINED GLASS PANEL OF ST ADRIAN OF NICOMEDIA, PROBABLY FLEMISH OR GERMAN EARLY 16TH CENTURY AND LATER
the armoured figure holding an anvil and a sword, a lion at his feet
186.5 cm x 59 cm; 73 ½ in x 23 ¼ in
Provenance
Stoke Poges Manor, Buckinghamshire, to 1799
Saint Giles Church, North Aisle, Stoke Poges
Col. Shaw, Stoke Poges Manor; sold, 'Early Stained Glass, Fine Antique Rugs and Carpets, Woodwork and Carvings, and Valuable Old English and French Furniture, etc.,' Sotheby & Co., London, 16 May 1929, lot 49, Lionel Harris, Spanish Art Gallery, London; French & Co., New York, 1929
William Randolph Hearst collection (No.66-1); sold Gimbel Brothers, New York, 16 August 1943
Literature
George Lipscomb, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, IV, London, 1857, p.568
Madeline H. Caviness (ed), Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass from New England Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978, p.79
See the Detroit Institute of Art, Accession No. 58.111, for what appears to be a companion window to this, depicting St Wencelas.
JWHA Inv. No. 2728