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Lot 105

A LARGE VICTORIAN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT STAINED GLASS DOOR BY LYON, COTTIER & CO, ORIGINALLY FROM ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, HUNTERS HILL
Rectangular with an internal arch having a coat of arms on a field of sunflowers, above a panel centred with a full length figure of the blind poet Homer holding a scroll standing before a temple, on a field of stained glass tile patterns with corner panels of birds in branches, titled HOMER in a scroll, within stylised leaf borders.
235 x 123 cm

Estimate $8,000 - $12,000

Sold for $12,000


There is a stained glass window with an almost identical depiction of Homer except accompanied by a hound, at St Andrews College, University of Sydney.

The Collection of the Late John Schaeffer AO

AUCTION
Sale: LJ8381
1:00pm - 25 August 2020
36-40 Queen Street, Woollahra

VIEWING
Viewing in Sydney:
Thursday 20 - Monday 24 August, 10am - 4pm

Auction:
Session 1: 1:00pm (Lots 1-254)
Session 2: 6:00pm (Lots 300-517)

CONTACT
Hamish Clark
hamish.clark@leonardjoel.com.au

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