Three medieval stained glass angels

[sister_raphael]

I've been incredibly fortunate that an amazing French archaeologist, Gilbert Charles Meyer, has befriended me via email and shared a number of astonishing medieval objects from his own personal collection. I've not seen any of them online, but have read his fascinating publications. 

I have permission to share these stained glass angels, for which I am very grateful. Aren't they the most incredible? 






Both of these date to the 15th century, and though the angels are dressed in earlier periods (as is quite normal for angels in medieval art) the clothing details are absolutely wonderful! 

I have a lot of love for collectors, as I am one myself, and have a modest research collection of medieval dress accessories (and one Roman mirror which was too gorgeous to not get) but I do have feelings about private collectors; namely once they go into the hands of them, the items rarely see the light of day afterwards. I understand why, these are personal collections, but from a research point of view, we are now no longer to compare them to other extant finds for learning opportunities. My collection is online for free, so even though most fo the pieces are not especially rare of incredibly valuable, they can be looked at and used by others.

Gilbert has shared a few other really wonderful pieces with me as well, which I will share if there's an opportunity to link them to something I'm talking about.

Please enjoy these pieces as much as I have.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I would have guessed at 15th century! There is French stained glass as well as German and low countries in St Mary's Shrewsbury as a 19th century vicar was a collector and the original glass hade been smasshed during the civil wars.

This is a piece of the low countries glass:

[sister_raphael]

Very nice! He also has a very lovely holy trinity glass from the 15th century which is beautiful.

[cmcmck]

There's also a Jesse tree window which came from another local church which collapsed and is probably the finewst I've ever seen.

This is a detail of Jesse:

[yarnandglue]

Thank you so much for sharing! They are so beautiful!

[sister_raphael]

Beautiful!

[sister_raphael]

You're very welcome!