Silver-Toned Angel Sun Catcher, 17"

Angel figure. The guardian motif in silver tone.

Hanging prisms. Sunlight scattered into color.

17 inches. Full window-length drop.

• Material: silver-toned metal angel with glass prisms, approximately 17 in overall
• Hangs from a window hook or curtain rod; prisms want direct sun to work
• Wipe prisms with a soft cloth to keep the rainbows sharp
• SKU: FSCWH27

The angel is the West's most domestic protective figure: the guardian at the bedside of a thousand years of folk devotion, the watcher embroidered, painted, and hung wherever households wanted a kindly eye, and the sun catcher gives that old motif the window's best job, standing in the light and scattering it. On a bright day the prisms throw moving color across the room, which is the whole honest mechanism: glass, sun, and physics doing something that has delighted people since the first chandelier. It suits the kitchen window, the reading corner, the room of anyone who loves both angels and rainbows. The catcher guards no one on its own, as we say plainly of every figure on the shelf; it stands the guardian motif in the light, and fills the room with what the sun sends through it.

1. Hang it in the sunniest window; direct light makes the prisms work.
2. Give it swing room; the drop is a full 17 inches.
3. Wipe the prisms occasionally; dust dulls rainbows.

• Flower Gazing Ball Stand: the shelf's light-catcher below the window's.
• Selenite Iceberg Point: the stone that does with lamplight what prisms do with sun.
• Scarab Prayer Poster: the morning sun's emblem on the wall beside it.

Does it need direct sun?

For the rainbows, yes: prisms scatter what reaches them, and a south-facing window gives the best show.

How big is it?

17 inches overall: a full window-length drop with the angel above and prisms below.

What does the angel represent?

The West's most domestic guardian motif: the kindly watcher of a thousand years of folk devotion, here given the window's light.