I.
1a. Fragmentary depiction of a
Gnadenstuhl Trinity set within a
quatrefoil opening with a cusped border and plain pot-blue
background. The bearded God the Father with cross-nimbus sits
against a glory on a throne with crocketted pinnacles, facing to the
front and wearing a ruby mantle with yellow-stain hem over a white
robe with a pattern of quatrefoils within a double circle. A dove
rises from his breast, set on a glory. The lobes of the quatrefoil
to left and right contain the leading around what were trees, as in
1d. Trace-line, matt wash and yellow stain are used. The panel is
much patched with medieval bouche-trous, including part of a figure
wearing a tunic where Christ crucified would have been, and pieces
of drapery pattern instead of the trees. Parts of the ruby mantle
and blue ground are patched. 1453. The quatrefoil is set on a medley
of 15th-c and 16th-c fragments cut into lozenges. These include
15th-c pieces of glory, drapery and blackletter, and 16th-c pieces
of merchant’s mark, Renaissance ornament, and part of a grid.
h 0.68m, w 0.495m
NMR
job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987,
col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05657 (1987, col. print,
CVMA inv. no. 003241); NMR BB89/05652 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv.
no. 003242); DK (2008)
2a.
Arms of the City of Norwich, gules in fess a three-towered gate
argent with door or and in base a lion salient? of the third. Panel
cut down, but has lobes and may have come from a tracery light; some
repair leads. The shield is set on a small rectangular panel with
modern white-glass background, against a background of fragments as
in 1a. These include blackletter, border work, patterned quarries
and parts of a cow.
h 0.385m, w 0.495m
G. King & son (col. trans., CVMA inv.
no. 010791); NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR
BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05657
(1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003241); NMR BB89/05652 (1987, col.
print, CVMA inv. no. 003242); DK (2008)
3a.
Royal arms of Queen Elizabeth I in the garter. Late 16th-c. Set
on the usual background of fragments, including sun-burst border
pieces, feathers, and a fragment of blackletter, possibly reading
'istius'. Patched at the top and a few repair leads.
NMR job no.
87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print,
CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv.
no. 003238); NMR BB89/05652 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no.
003242); DK (2008)
4a. Bearded and nimbed figure of St Bartholomew, standing facing to
dexter against a seaweed screen with blue background and
yellow-stain estoile in the top foil, on an ears-of-barley pedestal,
wearing a purple mantle over a white robe, holding a flying-knife in
his right hand. White, purple and blue glass, with trace-line,
stipple-shading and yellow stain. Top right section of screen
patched and disturbed; bottom right corner replaced by a piece of
micro-architecture; mantle also patched, around the hands with ruby
and to bottom left with light-purple glass; some of the purple glass
suffers from external pitting; a little paint loss; several repair
leads. 1453. The panel is set against the usual fragments, including
blackletter, chequered pedestal, and part of a coat of arms with
sable a bar wavy, probably for the arms of Robert Toppes. There are
also some pieces of 16th-c micro-architecture.
NMR job no. 87/1707
(1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA
inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no.
003238); NMR BB89/05655 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003240); DK
(2008)
5a. Feathered demi-angel wearing an ermine tippet and diadem and
holding a scroll with blackletter text 'Erat | Joh(ann)es' (John I,
6), standing against a background that is now ruby above and blue
below, set within rod-and-leaf work. Blue glass of wings stained
yellow on back to give green. Trace-line. White, blue and ruby
glass, with yellow stain. 1453. Blue background may not be original;
a little paint loss; a few repair leads.
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987,
b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no.
003235); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003238); DK
(2008)
1b. The arms of the City of Norwich in a classical architectural
setting. 17th-c. At the top and bottom are a few mainly 15th-c
fragments, mostly of micro-architecture, with one piece of
blackletter text.
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR
BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05652
(1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003242); DK (2008)
2b. A large probably made-up shield of arms, lozengy argent and
azure, with on alternate lozenges argent a fleur-de-lys argent or
or, on a canton of the second a hand of the first. The blazon is
irregular and unknown, and the whole has the appearance of a
confection to complete the series of shields in rows two and three.
Trace-line, stippling. White and blue glass, with yellow stain. The
background of fragments includes patterned quarries, a crown,
micro-architecture, foliage, blackletter and blue cloud, mainly
15th-c.
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR
BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05655
(1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003240); NMR BB89/05652 (1987, col.
print, CVMA inv. no. 003242); DK (2008)
3b. An oval roundel with an achievement of arms, sable, in chief three
talbots’ heads couped, langued gules, with a gentleman’s helm with
crest (a talbot’s head sable on a wreath), with mantling, perhaps
for Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich 1641–1656, whose arms were sable
three talbots’ heads erased argent langued gules.
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17th-c. Fragments
in the background include foliage, quarry patterns, blackletter,
drapery, and part of an arm. 15th-c and 19th-c.
NMR job no. 87/1707
(1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA
inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no.
003238); NMR BB89/05655 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003240);
NMR BB89/05652 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003242); DK (2008)
4b. Bearded and nimbed figure of St Thomas, standing facing to
sinister against a seaweed screen with ruby background, on an
ears-of-barley pedestal, wearing a blue mantle over a white robe,
holding a spear in his right hand. Technique as 3a, with white, ruby
and blue glass. Estoile at the top replaced by a fragment of blue
drapery; bottom left part of the screen replaced by a piece of
micro-architecture; one or two pieces of the screen on the right are
not original; some paint loss on the screen and drapery; several
repair leads. 1453. Fragments in the background include a piece of
14th-c border with cross-hatching and quatrefoils, blackletter
script and drapery.
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print);
NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR
BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003238); NMR BB89/05655
(1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003240); DK (2008)
5b.
Head of an angel facing to dexter, the tips of the wings visible
behind, set on a plain blue ground, possibly not original.
Trace-line. White and blue glass, with yellow stain. 1453. Further
wings intruded above the head; to right and left fragments of ruby
glass and pieces of rod-and leaf ornament; below the head a piece of
intruded drapery.
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR
BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05649
(1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003238); DK (2008)
1c. In the bottom half of the panel is a shield with the arms of the
Grocers’ Company, argent a chevron gules between nine cloves proper,
5 and 4, impaling a merchant’s mark.
15
The shield is set on a blue
circular ground with a relieved foliage diaper and a beaded
yellow-stain border with ruby inserts. Trace-line, matt wash,
relieving. White, blue and ruby glass, with yellow stain. Two pieces
of blue have been replaced by plain blue glass, and there is some
paint loss on the shield. 1453? In the top half is a Flemish roundel
of unknown provenance, rectangular in form, depicting an
unidentified subject.
16
Seen here is a crowned king sitting on a
throne covered by a brown striped cloth and with a brown back, and
with a curtain above his head.
17
The king speaks vehemently with a man
who bows to him, while two others stand behind, one pointing with
his thumb to three further men dressed in more exotic costumes. The
scene is set in a large building; further buildings and a tree are
seen behind the second group of men.
18
Trace-line, matt wash,
relieving, stippling, White glass, with yellow stain and sanguine.
Complete, some rubbing and scratching of the paint. c.1530 – c.1540.
Fragments in the background include blackletter, patterned quarries
and foliage.
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR
BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05653
(1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003239); DK (2008)
2c. Shield with the arms of the Merchant Adventurers, barry nebuly
argent and azure on a chief or 2 roses gules quartering gules a lion
passant guardant or, set on a circular ruby background. Trace-line,
matt wash, abrasion; the abrasion of the bars nebuly is particularly
striking. Flashed-blue and flashed-ruby glass, with yellow stain.
1534? A crack on the chief, otherwise in excellent condition. The
ruby disc is set against a rectangle of late enamelled glass with
foliage and the panel is made up with fragments as usual, including
a rose-en-soleil quarry and other patterned quarries.
NMR job no.
87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print,
CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05650 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv.
no. 003237); NMR BB89/05653 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no.
003239); DK (2008)
3c. A rectangular heraldic panel of the late seventeenth or
eighteenth centuries with argent a chevron gules between three
crosses crosslet sable, perhaps for Smyth, of Walsoken, Norfolk.
Kent gives the motto, which is now scarcely legible: 'Crux Christi
Gloria Christiani'. Fragments in the background include blackletter
and patterned quarries and many 19th-c fragments.
NMR job no.
87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print,
CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05650 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv.
no. 003237); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no.
003238); G. King & Son (col. trans., CVMA inv. no. 010792);
NMR BB89/05653 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003239); DK (2008)
4c. Bearded and nimbed figure of St Philip stands facing right
against a seaweed screen with ruby background, wearing a blue mantle
over a white robe, holding a basket of loaves in his right hand.
Technique as 4a, with white, ruby and blue glass. The estoile at the
top has been replaced by a fragment of blue drapery, the bottom
right part of the screen is replaced by a piece of
micro-architecture, the pedestal is missing and the bottom left of
the screen is muddled. Some repair leads and paint loss. 1453. The
panel is set on fragments including black letter, feathers and
rod-and-leaf ornament.
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w
print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR
BB89/05650 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003237); NMR BB89/05649
(1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003238); G. King & Son
(col. trans., CVMA inv. no. 010792); NMR BB89/05653 (1987, col.
print, CVMA inv. no. 003239); DK (2008)
5c. As 3d, with the angel facing right.
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987,
b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no.
003235); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003238); DK
(2008)
1d.
St John the Baptist stands nimbed and bearded wearing a ruby
mantle over a camel-skin shirt tied at the waist with a white cloth,
holding a book in his left hand on which is placed the Lamb of God
with nimbus and pennant on a cross, and pointing to the lamb with
his right hand. He stands on a landscape in pale-green bubbly glass
with plants and clifflets and a tree to either side, pale pink on
the left and white with yellow stain on the right. Plain blue
background. Above is a scroll with yellow stain with black letter
text 'Ecce agn(us) dei'. The quatrefoil panel was surrounded by a
cusped and three-dimensional border, of which only the part in the
top foil survives. Trace-line, matt wash, relieving. White, blue,
pale-pink, pale-green and ruby glass, with yellow stain. Two pieces
of the ruby mantle and one of the camel-skin shirt have been
replaced by fragments, as have small parts of the blue background in
the top foil and on the right, and there are some repair leads and a
small amount of paint loss. The panel is set on fragments, including
micro-architecture, chequered pedestal, seaweed diaper, blackletter
and Renaissance lettering, perhaps from a merchant’s mark. Two
adjacent fragments of pot-yellow glass appear to depict the head of
a figure lying on the ground with the word ‘false’ in blackletter
beneath the head. This may be from one of the 1534 justice scenes,
but the word is not recorded by Blomefield and Parkin. Another
fragment has 'tomo' in Renaissance lettering.
NMR job no. 87/1707
(1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA
inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05656 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no.
003236); NMR BB89/05653 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003239); DK
(2008)
2d. Shield with the royal arms of France ancient quartering England,
with green edging at the base. The fleurs-de-lys are insertions of
white glass with yellow stain, and the lions of England are abraded
from flashed ruby and coloured with yellow stain. Trace-line,
abrasion. White, green and ruby glass, with yellow stain. Lower
fleur-de-lys of the first quarter and part of the green edging
replaced by fragments; repair leads in the dexter half of the
shield. The shield is set on a rectangle made up with fragments of
ruby and Renaissance ornament. To the right, left and below are
further fragments, including patterned quarries and small fragments
of heraldry, including sable a chevron or, with a ?lion’s head in
base, and sable, perhaps 2 crosses crosslet, in base a scallop
argent.
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR
BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05650
(1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003237); NMR BB89/05653 (1987, col.
print, CVMA inv. no. 003239); DK (2008)
3d. Shield in a cartouche to the same design as that in 3a of
the royal arms, with the arms of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
1564–88, probably 1586–88. The shield and cartouche are set on a
rectangle of blue glass and the rest of the panel filled with
fragments, including sunbursts, feathers, blackletter and
micro-architecture.
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print);
NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR
BB89/05650 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003237); NMR BB89/05649
(1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003238); NMR BB89/05653 (1987, col.
print, CVMA inv. no. 003239); DK (2008)
4d. Bearded and nimbed figure of an Apostle standing facing to dexter
against a seaweed screen with a blue background, wearing a ruby
mantle over a white robe, with a yellow-stain estoile in the top
lobe. Technique as 4a, with white, ruby and blue glass. Ruby mantle
patched in the middle; the ears-of-barley pedestal missing; screen
patched on the left with pieces from other panels of saints (one has
a grid iron, perhaps from St Lawrence, and another a staff, perhaps
part of St Mathias’s halberd), and on the with a large piece of
micro-architecture; background patched with a sky pattern. 1453. The
figure and setting are placed on fragments, including blackletter,
patterned quarries, ears-of-barley pattern, and part of a face. NMR
job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print);
NMR BB89/05648 (1987,
col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05650 (1987, col. print,
CVMA inv. no. 003237); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv.
no. 003238); DK (2008)
5d. A feathered demi-angel with green wings wearing an ermine tippet
and diadem and holding a scroll with a black-letter text: 'Fuit |
homo' (John I, 6), stands against a background that is now ruby
above and blue below, set within rod-and-leaf work. Trace-line.
White, blue, green and ruby glass, with yellow stain. Blue
background may not be original; a little paint loss; head is
cracked; a few repair leads. 1453.
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987,
b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no.
003235); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003238); DK
(2008)
A1.
Eyelet decoration, in situ Renaissance ornament. Trace-line.
White glass, with yellow stain. 1534. Good condition.
h 0.05m, w 0.05m
NMR job no.
87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print,
CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv.
no. 003238; DK (2008)
A2. Eyelet decoration, as A1. Slight paint loss.
h 0.05m, w 0.05m
NMR job no. 87/1707
(1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA
inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no.
003238); DK (2008)
B1.
Demi-figure of an angel in a diadem and white tunic facing to
sinister, with plain ruby background. Trace-line, stipple-shading.
White and ruby glass, with yellow stain. 1453. Medieval insertions
top and bottom, including lower part of figure in tunic; some paint
loss and repair leads; yellow stain worn on sinister wing.
h 0.275m, w 0.16m
NMR job
no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col.
print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA
inv. no. 003238); DK (2008)
B2.
Demi-figure of an angel, as B1. Heavy parallel scratches on face.
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h 0.275m, w 0.16m
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987,
col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print,
CVMA inv. no. 003238); DK (2008)
C1.
Roundel with the
personification of Justice standing on a pedestal with relieved
lozenge pattern against a plain background, facing to sinister,
wearing a white mantle over a yellow-stain robe with broad white hem
and turban-like headgear on her hair, which falls down her back,
carrying a sword over her shoulder in her right hand and scales in
her left. Trace-line, stipple-shading. White glass, with yellow
stain. 1534. This unipartite piece is set on fragments of foliage, a
glory, and blue and ruby glass, all 15th-c. Cut down at edges, paint
loss, repair leads.
h
0.34m, w 0.16m
NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print);
NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR
BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003238); DK (2008)
C3.
Roundel with the
personification of Prudence, standing wearing a mantle over a
robe royale with ermine front and bottom and facing to the dexter.
On her head is what appears to be a stone coffin, an attribute of
this Virtue, and on her left shoulder is a shield with what appear
to be symbols of the Passion, another such attribute. Before her is
a large scalloped object, perhaps a mirror, a third attribute of
Prudence.
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Technique and date as C1. Paint badly worn.
h 0.34m, w 0.16m
NMR job no.
87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05648 (1987, col. print,
CVMA inv. no. 003235); NMR BB89/05649 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv.
no. 003238); DK (2008)
nII.
1a. In the middle of the lower part of the panel is an oval panel with
flattened sides with a heraldic achievement, the shield sable three
cranes argent and a trefoil slipped or at the mid point, for Brown,
whose name appears beneath. On a gentleman’s helm with mantling
argent and gules is the crest, a crane rising from a coronet argent.
Kent confidently identifies this as for Robert Browne, of Heigham,
mayor in 1522, but that Browne was a butcher, and the shield appears
to date from the late sixteenth century. More probably it is for
Richard Browne, sheriff in 1595 and dying in office, and comes from
the sheriff’s court on the first floor.
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Below is the bust of a
nimbed angel with diadem and tippet. Trace-line, matt wash,
relieving. White glass, with yellow stain. Paint very worn.
c.1470–90. To the left is a composite figure of an angel, a
sinister-facing head to which have been added blue wings and parts
of a dalmatic, all c.1450–60. To the right is a figure of the Virgin
Mary at her Assumption, standing with hands raised against a glory
wearing a blue mantle over a rich robe royale made of ermine and
with a beaded hem and a central band of flashed ruby abraded with a
flower pattern stained yellow the seeds. Trace-line, matt wash,
abrasion. White, blue and ruby glass, with yellow stain. The head
has been placed in sII and replaced here by the head of a female
saint with a veil facing to dexter. 1453. Immediately above the
achievement is a fragment of a scene possibly from the original 1534
glazing. It depicts a bearded man in a coat with fur collar and a
soft hat standing behind a balustrade with a column on the left. To
his left stand two further men. The one in front is clean-shaven and
wears a coat with a fur tippet and a soft hat; he places one hand on
the balustrade and the other on the bearded man’s shoulder.
Trace-line, matt wash, stippling. White glass, with yellow stain. To
the left and right are two lozenges of c.1570–80 painted with the
arms of Norwich. Trace-line, matt wash, stippling. White glass, with
yellow stain and blue enamel. In the middle of the upper part is a
shield of arms that appears to have been reversed. The blazon when
in the correct position is Quarterly 1 and 4, argent a lion rampant
gules, 2 and 3 sable 2 bars argent divided nebuly per fesse in chief
3 spinning tops or (Toppes),
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impaling quarterly 1 and 4, gules a
chevron between three chain links or double annulets or, 2 and 3,
argent a griffin rampant or a chief ermine.
23
Trace-line, matt wash,
relieving, abrasion. White and flashed-ruby glass, with yellow
stain. Late 15th-c? The 3rd quarter of the dexter impalement lacks
the chief, which is replaced by white glass; a few cracks; some
corrosion on the inside; some paint loss; one repair lead. To the
left of the shield is a figure of a feathered angel musician set on
a plain blue ground facing to sinister and playing a psaltery.
Trace-line. White and blue glass, with yellow stain. 1453. Wing on
the right replaced by a medieval fragment; legs and feet missing;
several repair leads. On the right is a matching angel musician
playing the bagpipes and wearing a diadem, set on a ruby ground.
Legs and feet are missing; repair leads. The background to both
figures indicates that they are from tracery lights with trefoil
heads. Above the shield is a large quarry painted in brown paint
with an eagle standing on one leg (late 16th-c?), flanked on each
side by a well, the rebus of James Goldwell, Bishop of Norwich
1472–99, or possibly of his brother Nicholas, Dean of the College of
St Mary in the Fields, Norwich, 1498–1502.
24
Fragments between the
items mentioned include parts of a glory, patterned quarries, border
work, sunbursts, a small face, a lion’s face, a small lion on a
pedestal, and pieces of pot-blue and flashed ruby.
G. King &
Son (col. trans., CVMA inv. nos. 010788, 010790); NMR job no.
87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05651 (1987, col. print,
CVMA inv. no. 003244); DK (2008)
2a. Top centre is a figure dressed in a fur-trimmed coat sitting at
a table writing. On the table are scrolls, and to left and right are
visible faces of figures on the other side of the table looking at
the central figure. Trace-line, matt wash. White glass, with yellow
stain. Part of the 1534 glazing. Severe paint loss. Below is a
scroll set on a sunburst with an inscription in blackletter
'S(an)c(tu)s Nicholau(s)
'. Fragments filling the panel include
15th-c pieces (pot-blue, purple cloud, a hand, white drapery), and
16th-c pieces (two large leaves, four pieces of what appear to be
ornate fleurs-de-lys).
G. King & Son (col. trans., CVMA inv.
no. 010788); NMR job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR
BB89/05651 (1987, col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003244); DK (2008)
sII.
1a. In the middle of the lower half is a sub-circular enamel panel
with a shield of arms, per pale 1 the arms of Norwich, 2 argent in
pale point upwards the city sword hilt and pommel or blade gules
between in fesse the letters I M of the second and on the point the
cap of maintenance of the third, 3 the Mercer’s arms, for John Mann.
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The shield is set within a cartouche of foliage and berries. c.1653.
26
Below the cartouche are the head of a diademed angel facing to
dexter, the bust of the Christ Child blessing facing to sinister,
and the bust of a censing angel facing to dexter; rrace-line, matt
wash, relieving; white glass, with yellow stain; mid-15th-c; some
paint loss. On either side is a rectangular 17th-c enamel panel; one
depicts a falcon sitting on a branch by a river, the other an
unidentified very fragmentary scene, which appears to show a bearded
man on his knees before another bearded man, who blesses him.
27
On
each side of the round heraldic panel is a sub-rectangular piece
with the double headed imperial eagle; trace-line, matt wash; white
glass, with orange stain; c.1540–60; right-hand piece is cracked. On
the left above is a small square depiction of the arms of the city
of Norwich; trace line, matt wash; white glass, with yellow stain;
late 15th-c or early 16th-c; with the corners cut off to fit a
lozenge. The corresponding fragment on the right shows a man facing
left in profile wearing a bonnet, probably part of the 1534 glazing;
trace-line, stipple-shading; white glass, with yellow stain. In the
centre of the upper half of the panel is the badge of the heir
apparent, a plume of three ostrich feathers argent enfiled by a
coronet of crosses paty and fleurs-de-lys or, with the motto 'Ich
dien',
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set on a background party azure and gules with a feathered
diaper;
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trace-line; white, blue and ruby glass, with yellow stain;
severe paint loss, including on the motto, which is no longer
visible. Below are two covered cups between buckles, from the arms
of the Goldsmiths; 15th-c. On the left of the roundel is a standing
feathered angel from a trefoil-headed tracery light facing to
sinister, wearing a diadem and with a scarf knotted round its waist,
its hands raised, set on a ruby ground; trace-line, matt wash; white
and ruby glass, with yellow stain; 1453?; a few repair leads, a
little paint loss. On the right is another standing angel from a
trefoil-headed tracery light, facing to sinister in profile, wearing
a white tunic and diadem. its hands raised, set on a blue ground;
technique as angel opposite; 1453?; several repair leads. Above the
heir apparent’s badge is a shield with a hand in chief descending
from a cloud and holding on a cord an inkwell and pen.
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Trace-line,
matt wash, relieving. White glass, with yellow stain. c.1530–50.
Fragments making up this panel include parts of glories, sunbursts,
border pieces with fleur-de-lys, micro-architecture, feathers of
various colours, blackletter, quarry patterns, ruby, purple and blue
glass.
G. King & Son (col. trans., CVMA inv. no. 010789; NMR
job no. 87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05654 (1987,
col. print, CVMA inv. no. 003243); DK (2008)
1b. In the centre is the head of the Virgin Mary from the Assumption
figure in nII 1a, nimbed, set against a glory and with two
supporting angels. Trace-line, matt wash, relieving. White glass,
with yellow stain. 1453. The left side of the head and part of the
glory are missing. Fragments making up this panel include ‘lucas’ on
a scroll, blackletter, drapery, blue, ruby and green glass.
G. King
& Son (col. trans., CVMA inv. no. 010789; NMR job no.
87/1707 (1987, b&w print); NMR BB89/05654 (1987, col. print,
CVMA inv. no. 003243); DK (2008)
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