About this piece
back to topAn antique Hardman & Co ecclesiastical quatrefoil stained glass panel depicting two kings.
This panel displays Joseph and Jacob, biblical figures from the book of Genesis. Joseph was one of Jacob’s 12 sons, whom he loved the most. His father gifted him a coloured cloak, leading to Joseph’s brothers growing so jealous of him they sold him to slavery.
The biblical figure eventually became steward to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, in Egypt, and the brothers later turn to Joseph to save them from famine.
Competently painted, this dramatic stained glass window dates to 1889, once a part of an impressive larger window named ‘the Tree of Jesse Window’ reclaimed from the north transept of All Saints Emscote church, Warwick.
This is just one of ten stained and hand painted panels that once made this striking church window.
The vivid colours would look striking flooded with daylight as a stunning and detailed interior feature in a traditional home, a sympathetically decorated converted chapel or ecclesiastical building.
We have another quatrefoil panel of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ from this same window.
Hardman & Co
Renowned makers Hardman & Co made Birmingham a popular spot for stained glass operating between 1838 and 2008 as a world-leading stained-glass manufacturer.
Founder John Hardman led the company to be one of the country’s leading manufacturers in the 19th and 20th century.
They went on to create windows for churches and houses all over the world. Most of the company’s windows were made for buildings in Britain and Ireland.
Many also went overseas to countries which were then part of the British Empire such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Others also went to the USA.
Some windows went to churches in big cities while others went to tiny settlements.
Many of Hardman & Co’s records and designs are now divided between the Library of Birmingham and Birmingham Museums Trust.
