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Window Glass
E38 Window Glass
Window Glass
Window Glass

E38 Window Glass

Object NameWindow Glass
Mediumglass
ClassificationsArchaeology Excavated
LocationView by Appointment
Object numberABDMS053741
About MeOver 2000 fragments of window glass have now been excavated from the Aberdeen Carmelite friary, built in the 14th century and demolished sometime after the Reformation in 1560. This is a piece of ruby red flashed glass.

Most of the pieces date from the 13th and 14th centuries and have 'grisaille' decoration popular at that date. Only this fragment from Aberdeen has been tinted with red.

Little is known about glassmaking in Scotland, but in 1517 Friar Strang appears in the obituary calendar of the Aberdeen Franciscans as 'priest and glassworker...who did much of the work of his craft in many convents throughout the Province'.