Heraldic Panel with Arms of the House of Hapsburg

Inscription: (lower corners) initial C;
(border) initial C, four times.

Marking: Arms (of Charles V): I and IV, grand quarters quartered, 1 and 4, again quartered, 1 and 4, a gules a castle or (Castile); 2 and 3, argent, a lion gules (Leon); 2 and 3, paly of six, or and gules (Aragon), impaling per saltire in chief and bass Aragon, dexter and sinister, argent an eagle displayed sable (Sicily); II and III grand quarters quartered, 1, gules, a fess argent (Austria), 2, within a bodure compony gules and argent, azure three fleur-de-lys, tw oand one, or (Burgundy Modern), 3. within a bordure gules, a bendy of six or and azure (Burgundy Ancient), 4 sable, a lion rampant or (Brabant), overall an escutcheon, or a lion rampant sable (Flanders), in a base point, argent, a pomegranate vert (Granada); encircled by the Collar of the Order of the Gloden Fleece.

Crest (on a barred helm affronté): a ducal crown surmounted by a triple towered castle, issuant therefrom a demi lion crowned ducally, all or, grasping a sword proper, lambriquins or and ermine.

Probably from the Gravensteen at Ghent; Roy Grosvenor Thomas, New York and London (until 1937)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I," October 7, 2019–January 5, 2020.

Steinberg, S. H. "A Flemish Armorial Window." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 74, no. 434 (May 1939). pp. 218–22, fig. B.

Caviness, Madeline H., ed. Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: New England and New York (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist I). Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 15. Washington, D.C.: National Art Gallery, 1985. p. 137.

Terjanian, Pierre, ed. The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019. no. 68, pp. 148–49, 151, fig. 36.