Saint Corona Silesia, Kaiserswalde, first half 19th C. - image-1

Lot 82 Dα

Saint Corona Silesia, Kaiserswalde, first half 19th C.

Auction 1237 - overview Cologne
16.11.2023, 10:00 - Stained Glass from four Centuries
Estimate: 1.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 1.386 € (incl. premium)
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Saint Corona
Silesia, Kaiserswalde, first half 19th C.

Glass painted on reverse in eglomisé technique with gold leaf, opaque and transparent pigments. A short crack to the lower left corner, retouched losses around the figure. Red painted softwood frame, H 43.2, W 29 cm.

The glassworks in the Lower Silesian town of Kaiserswalde in the county of Glatz (today Lasówka in Poland) produced glass panes for several families of reverse glass painters active between 1770 and 1870. These artists specialised in the depiction of saints and rarely painted secular motifs. Many of their paintings are housed in the same plain, red painted surrounds.
Saint Corona was an early Christian martyr from Egypt or Syria. In the early middle ages she was already venerated in Veneto, but also north of the Alps, as the patroness of money, treasure hunters and butchers.

Literature

Cf. Helle/Kügler, Heilige auf Glas. Hinterglasbilder aus der Grafschaft Glatz in Schlesien. Die Sammlung Heidi und Fritz Helle, Görlitz 2010.

Exhibitions

2020 - 2021 "Hinter Glas gemalt. Geheimnisse einer Technik", Museum Penzberg Sammlung Campendonk.