KING DAVID

Brief description: Stained glass light depicting King David designed and made by William de Morgan circa 1870. King David playing stringed instrument.

Outer borders have busts of praying angels in cream, set on yellow foliage sprigs against ruby background. Inner wide borders have yellow leaves. Central portion shows David facing 3/4 right, with crown, red nimbus, green tunic and white and gold cloak, richly patterned. He holds triangular stringed instrument. Blue diamond patterned background, floor of fleur-de-lys tiles. William de Morgan was a distinguished designer, ceramicist and novelist. He began his career designing tiles and stained glass for Morris and Co. Increasingly disenchanted with the industrialisation of stained-glass manufacture; he established his own studio in Chelsea in 1869.

Object type: stained glass light

Number of objects: 7

Production date: circa 1870

Production period: 19th century, mid

Designer: William de Morgan (1839 - 1917)

Dimensions: Height: 4970 mm, Width: 4290 mm

Inscription: centre of panel ELYGM:1978.9.2 DAVID REX

Original location: Church of St Lawrence Little Stanmore Middlesex England Church of St Lawrence nave window

Acquisition: gift 1978

Acquisition source: Parochial Church Council

This item is only partly on display

Accession number: ELYGM:1978.9

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