French Cathedral Ceramic Coaster Set

This ceramic coaster set translates the luminous geometry of French Gothic stained glass into tableware, drawing directly from the architectural glazing programs of five canonical cathedrals: Chartres Cathedral's west façade rose (c. 1215), Sainte-Chapelle's upper chapel lancets (1242-48), Notre-Dame de Paris's south transept rose (c. 1260), Bourges Cathedral's ambulatory grisaille panels (c. 1215-25), and Reims Cathedral's clerestory windows (c. 1255). Each coaster isolates a compositional unit—a rose window quadrant, a lancet medallion, a tracery panel—and renders it through ceramic glazing techniques that replicate the optical effects of transmitted and reflected light on verre coloré (colored glass) assembled within armatures de plomb (lead frameworks).