Basic info

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Window glass

Object category

Medieval

Description

Silver stain roundel with lead surround. St Anne, wearing a wimple (to dexter) holds a flower in one hand and an open book in the other. She is reading to the Christ child, who is unclothed and standing on the Vigin Mary’s lap brandishing a rattle (to sinister). Both female figures are dressed in rich fur-lined gowns with silver stain hems. The group are depicted in a walled garden amongst a rural landscape. The Virgin Mary is here represented as hortus conclusus, enclosed garden. The hortus conclusus is both an attribute and title of the Virgin Mary, alluding to the Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Mary’s ‘closed off’ womb.There appears to be a glazier’s mark scratched into the glass.A sticker label on the front of the panel in Brian Sprakes’ handwriting reads ‘York Museum. St Anne BVM. Christ. German. Fowler Collection.’

Production date start

1500

Production date end

1550

Period

Medieval

Post-Medieval