Switzerland, Lucerne (?)
Dated 1695
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and enamel
31.8 x 22.5 (12 1/2 x 8 7/8)
Releaded cracks at top and bottom of panel
Provenance: Mrs. A. Murray Young, New York
Bibliography: Unpublished
Collection: Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian National Design Museum (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 1937-28-20
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4 azure on a triple mount vert a tree eradicated proper (An der Allmend), 2 and 3 or two mill irons sable (Pfiffer); crests: 1 above a barred helm to sinister a wing azure charged with a tree eradicated proper (for An der Allmend), 2 above a barred helm to dexter a ducal coronet and above that a demi-man vested sable and or and upon his breast and hat a fleur-de-lis azure (for Pfiffer); mantling 1 azure and vert, 2 or and sable
Inscription: J R. LANOTVOGT FRANTZ ROTHI AN DER / ALLMEND DES INNERE RATHI LOBLIEHER STATT / LUCERN UND FR. MARIA ANASTASIA PFIFFERIN / SEIN EHEGEMAHLIN AO 1695.