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This consisted of painting a compound of silver on the back of the glass. After firing in the kiln, the silver compound would turn yellow. Many panels from the 14th and 15th centuries are decorated simply in yellow (silver) stain and highlighted with a brown-black pigment. Since the technique reduced the amount of leading required, it allowed greater freedom of composition.\r\n\r\n\r\nThis fragment shows the head of a woman. Behind her head are the remains of a wheel painted on to the back of the glass with yellow (silver) stain. This indicates that the woman is St Catherine whose emblem was the wheel. It is likely that this image formed part of a larger panel in a church that depicted St Catherine or a scene from her life.\r\n\r\nThe religious conflicts that affected the British Isles in the 16th and 17th centuries had a devastating effect upon the decorative arts and furnishings of the Christian church. 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