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Antique Arts & Crafts Stained Glass Window c 1900- 1930
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Antique Arts and Crafts Stained Glass Window
is a classic Arts and Crafts style double hung window which features a centerpiece of a small scene. This window was salvaged from an old house in Pittsburgh. The window is datable to 1900 -1930, by the style of the composition, and types of glass used. The size of the upper sash is 30 3/8" wide by 27 1/4" tall. The glass size on the upper sash is approximately 26" wide x 24" tall. The frame is 1 1/4" thick, and the joinery is mortise and tenon. The lower sash measures 30 1/4" wide x 28" tall, with the glass size being 26" wide x 24" tall, approximately. Each window has one horizontal reinforcement bar, soldered directly to the leading, to hold it tight and flat. These windows are both flat, with no bowing. All of the glass is good on both windows, with no cracks on either window. All the leading is in good shape and all of the solder joints are intact. The sashes are painted a light cottage green on their interior sides and painted black on the exterior sides. The sash lifts and sash locks will be included, although one sash lock was removed in the pictures. These two sashes have the cutouts on their side edges for the ropes which they once had to raise and lower them. They still have their metal drip edges intact as well. As far as I can tell, they have mortise and tenon joinery. The main centerpiece depicts a cozy cottage nestled among aspens, done in white and red glass. You can see that the door was acheived by soldering on a small lead tab; a common technique from this era to depict those little details. The scene is done in various shades of opalescent glass. The aspen trees are done in gold and green streaked opalescent glass, and the bushes are a variety of shades of streaky green opalescent glass with a granite texture. The sky is especially noteworthy, being a wonderful swirly, streaked opalescent glass done in light blue and pink, with soft, poetic light transmission. The border which surrounds the scene is composed in a streaky gold and cream opalescent, faintly streaked with rose. The background, or "field" is a gold and cream streaked opalescent glass with loads of character; stretched bubbles, stringers, mottling, and dramatic pours with great passages of light. T are two perimeter borders. The inner, wider border is done in a luscious brown opalescent streaked with lime green glass. Once again, you can find lots of dramatic passages in this hand poured glass, with subtle and moody passages of light running through the glass. The outer, narrower border is another wonderful glass; emerald green, gold, and cream with a lot of lovely drama in it, especially in the gold streaking. Four squares of pink granite textured opalescent glass give the final quotation marks to the upper window's lovely composition. The lower window mirrors the composition above it, with a simpler centerpiece. The central shield is done in a muted red and emerald green granite textured opalescent glass, with a diagonal deep blue band running through the center. The background is the same great glass as the upper window, only now the mottling is more pronounced, and the subtle textures within the glass take on more light and more drama. The four pink granite squares, which are echoed in the upper window, lend the bottom window a final note of sweetness. All of this old glass has the usual hallmarks of old opalescent glass; the drag lines and irregularities on the surface, illustrating an example of that sensibility which came into vogue during the Arts and Crafts period, when folks were starting to get tuned into the beauty and nuances of handmade materials. This window has been professionally repaired. All of the glass is original to the piece except for two pieces, (one small cloud piece, and one tree piece) which have been replaced with identically matched glass. One rebar was resoldered in place and patinaed to match the leading. This window can be used as either a decorative piece to hang in front of another window, or as a real window installed into t... 
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