Featured Antique German Painted Stained Glass Window ??

Greetings All

Picked this up at a Detroit Auction a little while back from the collection of Michigan Senator Jack Faxon. It is a 18x13" hand painted stained glass window that appears to be German with an inscriptions "DIE-STAT-BAD" and 1642. Anyone have any idea what that means??

Also, there is a monogram in the lower right and appears to be "CVE".

Perhaps it is 19th century?

It has been re-leaded at some point and is housed in a very nice custom light box. It was placed in Jack Faxon's gorgeous living room originally (see picture below).

The glass is of different thicknesses and shows a fair amount of wear. The green coloured sections are twice as thick as the other sections. There are a lot of repaired cracks and a few newer cracks. The thin clear glass outer border is modern and has been added when it was re-leaded.

Nothing is printed and it all is hand painted under the microscope. Some of the detail is scratched into the paint layers. The amount of detail is astounding at that scale.

I have installed it in my living room and I love looking at it at night.

Does anyone have any ideas about where and when this was made?

Best Regards
Rob

 

Coat of arms of the city of Baden, Germany according to this.

https://www.lempertz.com/en/catalog...morial-coat-of-arms-of-the-city-of-baden.html

Debora

 

more like painted glass...than stained glass.

 

it's not German. it's the city crest of Baden Switzerland. you always see it at the old cladding and weapons and strong calves of the soldiers .
this is most probably a copy of an old crest when there were still elements of the Habsburg crests. in 1642 it was a tributary city of the Swiss Confederation.
19th century is a good guess; during Historism such items were in fashion.

 

There is a stained glass technique called "plating". That's where you get the color or effect desired by using two or more pieces of glass cut to the same size and shape and stacked together. That may explain the double thickness in the green areas - the decoration painted on clear glass backed by another piece of glass stained green.

If true, the backing piece of glass would have had to be stained green (as opposed to green throughout) to allow the staining to be scraped away for that sword hilt.

So long as the colors are fired-on, it's stained glass. You don't think of reverse painted glass as stained glass, and there are modern pieces colored with a transparent acrylic coating that I don't think fill the bill.

 

or made of bottle bottoms and then painted ?

 

Thanks for the Replies

Indeed, the sword hilt IS ground into the Thick Green glass. I was wondering about that. The 1543 date in the Thick Red glass is also ground into the glass. Those are the only places that that technique was used.

Regards
Rob

 

1543 confirms - once more - that it's not German. it was already under Swiss occupation in the golden era that lasted till 1712 due its position on one of the many South - North trade routes.