15th Jun, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
20th Century Design
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Hardman & Co, Birmingham 1889: The Tree of Jesse Window, North Transept and The Epistle for All Saints Day Window, South Transept, Sixteen Stained, Painted and Leaded Glass Lights and Two Quatrefoil Stained, Painted and Leaded Tracery Panels, All Saints, Emscote, Warwick. (18)
Jesse window - inner lights Our Lord and Kind David - outer lights Members of the Jesse Family Jesse is sleeping below.
Inscription at foot: There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse & a branch shall grow out of his roots.
Top quatrefoil tracery panels - Virgin and Child - Joseph and Jacob
The Epistle for All Saints Day
The original brass tablet below the South Transept window read - A.M.D.G (Ad Moiorem Dei Gloram) and in memory of George Nelson of the Lawn in this Parish, who departed July 17th 1850, and of Sarah his wife who was called hence Dec 14. 1865, the transept windows of this church are filled with stained glass, as a tribute of affection, by their sons.
Hardman Glass Sales Day Book Jul 1887 – Jun 1892 (Birmingham Archives and Heritage MS175A/4/3/7/6) page 191 Apr 13, 1889; GH Nelson Esq, The Lawn, Emscote. Two transept windows North & South of four lights & tracery each.
Returned to the Hardman's and company workshop when the church was demolished in 1967. In 1968/9 they were bought by Darrell Buttery direct from the vicar of All Saints.
Sixteen panels approximately 60cm wide, 120cm high Two quatrefoil tracery panels 53cm wide, 73cm high and 51cm wide, 73.5cm high
Sold for £4,500
Estimated at £5,000 - £8,000
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Auction: 20th Century Design, 15th Jun, 2024
On offer in the June 20th Century Design Sale will be the Michael Claxton Collection, an extraordinary collection of over 350 pieces of British pottery put together between 1974 and 2024, the majority of which were purchased directly from the potters. Potters represented in the collection include David Leach, Richard Batterham, David Roberts, Philip Marston, and Jim Malone.
The sale will also include a good private collection of furniture by Stanley Webb Davies, a fine large Lancastrian Lustre Vase by Gordon Forsyth for Pilkington's Tile & Pottery Co, and a good range of Mouseman and the Yorkshire Critters furniture and furnishings.
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