ID 964847
Lot 65 | WILLIAM BURGES (1827-1881)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
Rare Set of Nine 'Jewel' Stained Glass Roundels, six originally designed for the Bachelor's Bedroom of Cardiff Castle, Wales, circa 1870
likely produced by Saunders & Co., London
leaded stained glass
each inset within a modern leaded clear glass panel29 1/8 in. (74 cm.) high, 20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm.) wide (six panels)
37 ½ in. (95.3 cm.) high, 20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm.) wide (three panels)each roundel with a crowned armorial motif
Burges, W.
Provenance
Haslam & Whiteway Ltd., London.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above, 2003.
Literature
M. Williams, Cardiff Castle, guidebook, n.d., p. 12.
William Burges: Exhibition of Stained Glass Cartoons from the Cardiff Castle Collection, exh. cat., Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, 1977, p. 4, no. 4 (for a reference to the 'Jewel' windows at Cardiff Castle).
J. Mordaunt Crook, ed., The Strange Genius of William Burges 'Art-Architect', 1827-1881: A catalogue to a Centenary Exhibition, organised jointly by the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Cardiff, 1981, pp. 29-51 (for a discussion of this commission), 34 (for mention of the ‘Jewel’ windows).
J. Mordaunt Crook, ed., William Burges and the High Victorian Dream, London, 2013, pp. 243 and 386 (for a discussion of this commission).
M. Williams, Cardiff Castle and the Marquesses of Bute, London, 2019, pp. 89-91.
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| Medium: | Glass |
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| Art style: | Art Nouveau |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
| Medium: | Glass |
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| Art style: | Art Nouveau |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
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