Stained Glass - Its History
Stained Glass Style
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Stained Glass
- Its History
The typical styles of stained glass used in the 19th and early 20th Centuries
included stained glass windows in the traditionally European 19th-century pictorial style (prominent between 1820-1930), Quarry glazing
(1850-1870), Enamel painted glass (1800-2005), and Aesthetic and Opalescent style
glass (1870-1920).
Non-figural quarry stained glass windows represent the modest beginnings of America’s stained glass tradition. Quarry glazing was a popular type
of English and European stained glass making used in the 14th and 15th Centuries.
Early quarry glazing offered small sections of glass assembled into a colorful
lattice pattern and used on churches and other buildings.
Many Protestant congregations in early 19th Century America adopted this non-figurative method of
decoration, in part because of a shortage of technical and financial resources, and
also because of a distrust of installing pictures or imagery in churches. The
ornamental patterning and use of universal imagery is evident in the mid 19th
Century stained glass tradition.
Stained Glass
Style
The use of the swag of bell flowers is characteristic of the late 19th Century or
Victorian form found in antique furniture and stained glass design work. The
rounded or Renaissance inspired arches in stained glass pieces is typical of architectural designs
in the late 19th Century in the Renaissance Revival style. This style was found in many well to do
homes and the formal nature of a window refers to the fact that it is residential, rather than ecclesiastical or
church, architecture.
Depending on the size, style, condition and proper identification of stained glass, many antique or vintage pieces may be valued upwards of $5,000 to $100,000 depending on certain
factors.
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