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Building Name: Meadow Brook Hall

Studio Name: Bonawit (G. Owen) Studios

City: Rochester

Window Shape: 2 (rectangle)

Date of Window: 1929

Subject/Title of Window: Living Room, South Bay

Brief Description of Subject: Curved tops designed by Tiffany Studios, New York. Made by G. Owen Bonawit, Inc. Eight panels: 2 non-pictorial on each end and center four panels have rectangular inserts that represents knights.
From left to right:
Knight of the 13th Century holding sword and shield. His head is enclosed in a Pranker Heaume or Pot Helmet dressed in a suit of chained mail over which is a surcoat of linen. This surcoat was introduced in order to guard the mail from rain and indirectly as some protection against the heat of the sun's rays. He is holding a heavy sword and in the other hand is resting upon his shield of which is shown a mounted Knight armed in plate armour. At his feet is a Pranker Helmet crested with peacock feathers.
Knight holding lance and two shields is a decorative figure of the time of the hundred years war holding in the left hand a shield containing three leopards of England and in the right hand, the Fleur-de-lis of France.
Knight holding sword and standard is another armed figure in the chain mail period in England holding a Standard containing a swan's crest. Hanging from the tree is a shield of a Lion gardant double-bodied sejant crowned tails cowed.
Knight holding sword and shield is a knight of the 13th century.

Condition of Window: Good

Height: 44.5"

Width: 21.5"

Type of Glass and Technique: Antique or Cathedral Glass, Lead Came, Silver Stain

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