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Panel, stained glass

PETTS, John (John Petts (1914-1991) studied at Hornsey College of Art (1930-32) and the Royal Academy Schools and the Central School of Art (1933-34). He moved to Wales in 1934, where he founded the Caseg Press. He had workshops in Gwynedd (near Bethesda and at Llanystumdwy), Llandaff and Llanstephan, Dyfed. Preferring to be known as a designer-craftsman, he was a painter in oil and watercolour, a wood engraver and a stained glass and mosaic artist. His best-known work in stained glass in the window 'You Do It to Me', the west window of the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, commissioned in 1965 as a gift from the people of Wales to this black church following a racist bomb attack which killed four children. See 'John Petts', Glynn Vivian Art Gallery exhibition (2-23 August 1975) and catalogue, and Alison Smith, 'John Petts and the Caseg Press' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000).)

Rectangular stained glass panel comprising 25 sections of glass of various shades of red or purple, mostly coloured glass but at least four sections (those featuring the letters E and G) appearing to be flashed with streaked tones of red and yellow, the lead cames of H profile and with no signs of milling marks, the external cames 12mm wide and with beaded edges, the internal cames 7mm wide and with rounded edges; the design centred on a large G enclosing the snake of Aesculapius and surrounded (clockwise from the centre top) by the letter E, rugby posts behind a rugby ball with projecting arrow (i.e. forming the male symbol), the letter F, a purple section with wave pattern, a daffodil with its bulb and two other bulbs visible in a cross section of the ground, down the left side three golf clubs, a flag standing in a hole and a golf ball linked to the hole by a dotted line; the design enamelled in black with thick outlines, the ground and modelling dabbed and with visible brush marks.