BIRDMAN III : HAGGADAH - THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
V&A Museum, London 1993
Located in the Sacred Silver & Stained Glass Gallery
Inspired by a 14th century German Haggadah relating the Passover story in which birds' heads were substituted for human heads. This was not uncommon in Jewish ritual art, since the depiction of the human face contravenes the second of the Ten Commandments.
Coloured and acid etched flash antique glass, with paint
149cm x 45cm