Arts & Crafts, including the Aesthetic Movement - 22nd June 2011

Lot 52

Two stained glass windows by Charles Eamer Kempe

Estimate £500 - £800

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Description

Two stained glass windows by Charles Eamer Kempe, each, arched rectangular panel decorated with an angel holding up a curtain, below Gothic tracery and blue scrolling leaves unsigned each panel 115cm. high Provenance Elstree School Chapel J Longman & Son, Funeral Directors, Mortuary Chapel, 11 King Street, Watford Literature Margaret Stavridi Master of Glass, Charles Eamer Kempe 1837-1907, John Taylor/The Kempe Society, page 24 colour plate of The Crucifixion, St Peter's Easthope, Shropshire 1933 showing comparable use of tracery and blue foliate ground.