Switzerland, Lucerne(?)
Dated 1695
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and enamel
32.3 x 22.5 (12 3/4 x 8 7/8)
Cracks throughout, some releaded
Provenance: Mrs. A. Murray Young, New York
Bibliography: Unpublished
Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Museum (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 1937-28-21
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4 azure a wild man proper wreathed about the head and waist with foliage and holding in his sinister hand a tree (Weild), 2 or a branch of five leaves proper (Meyer van Schauensee), 3 argent on a triple mount vert a holly leaf of the last (Bircher); crests: 1 on a barred helm to sinister a demi wild man bearing on his dexter shoulder a tree trunk all proper (for Weild), 2 on a barred helm affronté a demi-man proper vested or and holding in his dexter and sinister hands a branch of five leaves proper (for Meyer); mantling 1 vert and azure, 2 or and vert
Inscription: HR. CORNELI WEILD DES GROSEN RATHI / UND GEWEITER OBER VOGT ZU EBIKON UND / FR. ANNA CATHARINA BIRCHERIN UND FR. / BARBARA MAYERIN SEIN EHEGEMAHLIN AO 1695.