Here is a roundel from one of the windows at the Metropolitan Museum's Cloisters, up in Fort Tryron Park. This one depicts "tipping," a game played by folk passing time in the middle ages. The objective of the game is to stand on one foot and raise the other, pairing it, at waist level with your opponent's foot. The first to push the other over wins. In this instance the girl must be a beginner as she is conveniently seated on a basket to assist with her balance. The wily male figure seems to be a little more serious than the girl, and, perhaps, his motives are impure. Knowing the medieval mind, there is always a little more than meets the eye in artwork like this. The dog, in the back seems to be a direct counterpoint to the hand of male, perhaps guarding, if only in a graphical sense, the virtue of the girl. Dogs, in art from this period, were often symbols of loyalty and fidelity. Likewise, the lambs down below also turn towards the male tipper, blocking all, but the contact of his foot. They too have symbolic significance, that of innocence. Behind the scene is a tree. A stand in for the growth which held the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden? Will this fellow tip the girl to the ground, and perhaps try her virtue? I really get a kick out of medieval art. Images from the period often are--at once--a historic graphic chronicle of what people looked like & did, married to a not-so-subtle morality tale. All this in a six inch glass roundel, which, when looked at from the correct viewpoint ( I shot this image from below, so that the overcast sky would illuminate the glass), these two figures would be seen, with their transparent background, set against the landscape, as if, you spied this scene as it was happening.