A small upgrade!

I recently restored this panel which had a large single pane section of arctic and lead overlay strips (lower right). 

The background glass is a beautiful old glass called Muffle, the pattern varied greatly over time but the original pattern was a repeating daisy shape with great movement and bounce!  

We took the opportunity to keep the beautiful glasses but alter some features of the design making the panel more elegant and balanced...

Inserting supporting glass in the rebate at the front cut down on reflections and meant that you could really appreciate the lovely glass.

Armorial Panels

 Following up on that last post, here's a few more 'befores', the panels were in a pretty bad way...

When cleaned, re-leaded, re-soldered and cemented these panels were incredibly beautiful - the clear glass in the background had a gentle distortion and the hot colours of the old Muffle glass in the shields really blazed in the sunshine.