OSCAR PATERSON (1836-1934)
STAINED, PAINTED AND LEADED GLASS PANELS, CIRCA 1900
£2,500
Auction: 14 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
originally composed for four panels, the design depicting a procession, with a bull decorated with floral garlands, led by two girls playing cymbals, set in an idyllic landscape
Dimensions
each panel, 77.5cm wide, upper panels, 94cm high, lower panels, 196cm high
Footnote
Literature: Donnelly, Michael 'Scotland's Stained Glass', Edinburgh 1997, pages 68-71
Note: Oscar Paterson was born in Glasgow in1863. He was a fully trained glassmaker and a tutor in glass technology at Gresham College in the 1880s. Paterson was a practitioner of many pioneering stained glass techniques and experimented with etching glass with hydrofluoric acid.
In 1889 he opened his first studio which became internationally famous for its distinctive domestic glass in the 1890s and this magnificent panel is a prime example of his work at this time.
Paterson’s studio produced a large amount of glass for the Pacific and Orient Shipping Company and the Cunard Line. During the 1920s the studio was kept afloat by a commission to produce a complete scheme of stained glass for St Magnus Cathedral. The studio closed in 1931.