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Augsburg - GLASS PAINTING ”THE WITCH OF ENDOR”. GLASS PAINTING ”THE WITCH OF ENDOR”. Augsburg. Date: 18th c. Technique: Acromatic class glass with coloured, opaque painting. Ebonised and gilt wood frame. Measurement: 28,5 x 35cm. Provenance: Bavarian private collection ”Saul at the Necromancer of En-Dor, ” abbreviated with ”The Witch of Endor, ” from 1 Sam 28:3-25, is a rare painting theme, and not only in glass painting. A comparable reverse painting with the theme ”Daniel's dream of the four epochs” can be seen in Dewiel 1986, p. 39, fig. 8 - it may, perhaps, be the same painter. Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. Explanations to the Catalogue Augsburg Germany Early Works of Art