Stained Glass Windows
Jeweled & Stain Glass Antique Art Work. The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches, mosques and other significant buildings. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensional structures and sculpture. Modern vernacular usage has often extended the term "stained glass" to include domestic leadlight and objets d'art created from came glasswork exemplified in the famous lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Stained Glass
Belcher Mosaic Glass Window
This is a exceptional example of a Belcher mosaic glass window featuring cabochon jewels and both mosaic and micro mosaic construction. Henry Belcher manufacture windows between 1884 and 1889. They assembled many small pieces of glass which were usually less than one half-inch across into the desired pattern with additional element including cabochon and facetted jewels. The whole mosaic was then sandwiched between two larger sheets of asbestos. The artisan poured in a liquid metal alloy, which would snake its way between the pieces and bind them together.
Stained Glass Windows
This unusual aesthetic movement leaded glass window depicts both an unusual subject matter including a bat and owl. in addition there are enamel painted acorns and three types of jewels including cabochon, faceted and chunk jewels. This unusual subject matter and extraordinary use of color and design makes this a very desirable window.
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Bevel Glass Windows
Bevel Glass Windows were very popular at the turn of the last century. Plate glass was cut and each individual piece beveled and then the individual pieces leaded together in complex patterns.
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