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Miniature Stained Glass Window, Fairy Castle

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Miniature Stained Glass Window, Fairy Castle

Category

Art, Architecture, and Design

Classification

CHENHALL - Built Environment Objects - Building Components - Door & Window Elements - Element, Window - Window - Window, Leaded
CHENHALL - Communication Objects - Arts - Visual Arts - Sculpture - Miniature

Object Origin
Artist:

Brabon, Helga

Date Created:

1928-1935

Physical Characteristics

Object Description: Miniature stained glass window depicting Judgement of Solomon. Oriented vertically, Solomon is at the top of the scene/space with left arm raised. One female figure in red at midpoint. Second male and second female figure with baby in bottom portion.

Materials:

glass

Measurements: Object:
    Height: 30 in, Width: 4.5 in

Credit

Gift of Colleen Moore, 49.129.186.4

Display Status

On Exhibit

Miniature Stained Glass Window, Fairy Castle

About: Miniature Stained Glass Window, Fairy Castle

About: Miniature Stained Glass Window, Fairy Castle

This is one of four stained glass windows found in the Chapel of the Fairy Castle. All four were made by Helga Brabon, who also decorated the green and gold ceiling from the Book of Kells. This stained-glass window depicts the story of Solomon from the Bible. King Solomon, who was known for his wisdom, settled a dispute between two women who both claimed to be the mother of the same baby. He proposed to divide the child in two, but the real mother revealed herself when she stepped in and renounced her claim on the child, showing that she would rather give up the child than see it killed. This judgment earned Solomon a reputation for being a wise and compassionate ruler. The Chapel of the Fairy Castle is decorated throughout with inlaid ivory embellished with symbolic events of the Old Testament, designed by Bayard de Volo. In the center of the design are the Ten Commandments hewn into the stone tablets. The gold and ivory Chapel organ was carved in Italy and has over a hundred keys, each barely a sixteenth of an inch wide, and it even plays music through an electrical system via remote control. Finally, the ceiling is decorated from the illuminations of the Book of Kells, a medieval illuminated manuscript preserved in Dublin, Ireland.

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