Saint Margaret of Antioch
c. 1500
France
20 cm (diameter); clear, red, blue, purple, and green glass with silver stain and vitreous enamel.
This fabulous, intact grisaille roundel shows Saint Margaret emerging from the belly of the devil. According to her vita, she was swallowed by the beast but was saved by praying to a cross, which irritated its stomach and caused it to disgorge her safely. This roundel is one of very few to portray the saint, who was particularly popular in late-medieval France.
