Subsidiary panels a-s - Wine cryers and their customers
b - wine cryer and female customer (?)
a - wine cryers
c - wine cryers
d - wine cryer with tasting goblet
e - wine cryer with tasting goblet
f - wine cryer with tasting goblet
g - wine cryer with tasting goblet
h - wine cryer with tasting goblet
i - wine cryer with tasting goblet
j - wine cryer with tasting goblet
k - customer
l - customer
m - wine cryer with tasting goblet
n - wine cryer with tasting goblet
o - wine cryer with tasting goblet
p - wine cryer with tasting goblet
q - wine cryer with tasting goblet
r - wine cryer with tasting goblet
s - wine cryer with tasting goblet
Description:
Jane Welch Williams claimed that the figures in sub-panels d-s, occupying the margins of the window, represented participants in a procession
offering wine to the Cathedral on the duplex feast of St Lubin (September 16th). Careful examination of the panels themselves
does not support this very specific interpretation (which owed much to that author's preconceptions about how the window as a whole
functions). Indeed, the range of gestures is far more suggestive of men advertising the quality of their wares or negotiating a price.
Two of the men point to their own eyes, some present their goblets with only one hand, others gesture towards the vessel and so on - none of
which is particularly suggestive of a sacred offering.
Personally I see no reason to suppose that these figures are in any way different from the wine cryers or tavern keepers depicted
in panel 01 and subsidiary panels a-c.