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Border with Arching Leaf Fronds

ca. 1200–1210
On view at The Met Cloisters in Gallery 08
Several unusual details in this border fragment, such as its extreme narrowness and the turn of the leaf tip, are found in glass from Soissons Cathedral. The strict lateral symmetry is characteristic of 13th-century border design.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Border with Arching Leaf Fronds
  • Date: ca. 1200–1210
  • Geography: Made in possibly Soissons, Picardy, France
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: Pot-metal glass and vitreous paint
  • Dimensions: Overall: 4 x 21 3/4 in. (10.2 x 55.2 cm)
  • Classification: Glass-Stained
  • Credit Line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1926
  • Object Number: 26.218.4
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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