Details

LOT 0394

Stained Glass Panel with the Mocking of Jesus

FLEMISH, 19TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER

25 1/2 x 21 in. (4.5 kg, 65 x 53.5 cm).

In late 15th century style, showing seated Jesus in the centre, wearing a purple robe and a crown of thorns on his head; surrounded by four armoured men dressed in long tunics, breeches and leggings, two wearing a skullcap; architectural background and Flemish inscription ‘DE KROONING VAN JESUS’ (the coronation of Jesus) in uncial letters; some restoration. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a war-damaged church in Belgium.
Ex property of a late Northumberland collector.
From a private collection, Derbyshire, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. similar image in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no.41.190.454, stained glass by Jan Rombouts, early 16th century AD.

Footnotes

The scene represents the ‘Mocking of Christ’ from the Gospel of Matthew (27,27.31): ‘Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said’.