Boppard Abroad- Newport Rhode Island: Ochre Court
In Newport there are two locations where stained glass from Boppard can be found. The first is at Ochre Court which is now the administrative building for The Salve Regina University. There is a big four light window on the first landing and above the porte coch?re which is filled with panels from Boppard.
Ochre Court was commissioned by the property magnate Ogden Goelet in 1892 as a holiday home. The interiors of this vast mansion were embellished with art and antiques brought over from Europe including a lot of stained glass from the Carmelite Church at Boppard, bought at the auction of the Spitzer Collection in 1893. Goelet bought more glass than he really needed and his purchase was only installed in part.
The assemblage contains four scenes from the 10 Commandments window and two lancets showing St. Quirinius and St. George as well as two donor panels. It appears that the remaining glass was stored in the attic at Ochre Court until 1939 when the son of Ogden, Robert Goelet, sold the glass to Sir William Burrell via Burrell’s dealers.
So our sections from the 10 Commandments window, with the Virgin and the 8th Commandment came from the attic at Ochre Court. They were surplus to requirements in this grand house with 60 rooms.
This is how the stained glass from Ochre Court and from the Burrell would originally have fitted together:
window originally in the Carmelite church at Boppard-am-Rhein, 1440-1446
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Armour in the Boppard Panels
There are three main images of armed men in the Burrell Collection Boppard windows, appearing in the Agony in the Garden, Christ before Pilate and Resurrection panels.
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panel showing Jesus Christ being dragged in front of Pontius Pilate by two soldiers and a riotous mob. Stained glass panel ‘Christ before Pilate’ (detail). Made in Boppard on Rhine, South West Germany, around 1440. (accession number 45.485.1.d)
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The Resurrection, Christ before Pilate, Annunciation, Appearance to Peter, Agony in the Garden, and Birth of the Virgin from the Tree of Jesse window from Boppard, 1444. Burrell Collection, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
Reconstruction of the Tree of Jesse window from Boppard with the hypothetical inclusion of the Burrell panel showing donors and their arms in the lowest register