Lots 26-30 This and the following five lots were removed from the Burtonwood Brewery, Warrington. A large stained glass panel, c.1890-1910, attributed to Williams, Gamon & Co. or Shrigley & Hunt, depicting a knight on horseback with admiring ladies alongside, possibly a jousting scene, fitted in a lightbox, with a mounted frame, 48cm wide 7cm deep 79cm high The scenes depicted are Pre-Raphaelite in taste and are secular images, possibly depicting the Field of the Cloth of Gold where Henry VIII of England met Francis I of France, designed to improve relations between the two rival kingdoms. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey orchestrated the event and Henry and Francis met south of Calais for eighteen days of tournaments and diplomacy. Feasts, masquerades and religious services were set amidst a sea of specially-built tents, banqueting houses and 'portable palaces'. Amongst these panels are what appears to be a jousting tournament, with damsels admiring a knight on horseback (Lot 26), John Tuchet, 8th Baron Audley, 5th Baron Tuchet (1483-1557) (Lot 27), merchants trading and bishops in front of a tent with the White Cliffs of Dover in the background (Lot 28), Eastern traders (Lot 29), and knights on a drawbridge (Lot 30).
Lots 26-30 This and the following five lots were removed from the Burtonwood Brewery, Warrington. A large stained glass panel, c.1890-1910, attributed to Williams, Gamon & Co. or Shrigley & Hunt, depicting a knight on horseback with admiring ladies alongside, possibly a jousting scene, fitted in a lightbox, with a mounted frame, 48cm wide 7cm deep 79cm high The scenes depicted are Pre-Raphaelite in taste and are secular images, possibly depicting the Field of the Cloth of Gold where Henry VIII of England met Francis I of France, designed to improve relations between the two rival kingdoms. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey orchestrated the event and Henry and Francis met south of Calais for eighteen days of tournaments and diplomacy. Feasts, masquerades and religious services were set amidst a sea of specially-built tents, banqueting houses and 'portable palaces'. Amongst these panels are what appears to be a jousting tournament, with damsels admiring a knight on horseback (Lot 26), John Tuchet, 8th Baron Audley, 5th Baron Tuchet (1483-1557) (Lot 27), merchants trading and bishops in front of a tent with the White Cliffs of Dover in the background (Lot 28), Eastern traders (Lot 29), and knights on a drawbridge (Lot 30).
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