Switzerland, Lucerne, attributed to Franz Fallenter
1599
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and enamel
30.5 x 44.4 (12 x 17 1/2)
Piece above arms restored
Provenance: Irwin Untermyer, New York
Bibliography: Hans Lehmann, Geschichte der luzerner Glasmälerei. van den Anfangen bis zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts, Luzern Geschichte und Kultur 3, no. 5 (Lucerne, 1941), 155 and 253; Yvonne Hackenbroch, Bronzes, Other Metalwork and Sculpture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (New York, 1962), pl. 171.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 64.101.1592 (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
Arms: Azure in chief a plowshare argent in base a mill cog or
Inscription: ANNA MULLERIN MIT IREN/ SUNEN / HANS ELMIGER MELCHER BRATZY JACOB UND HEINRICH ELMIGER / 1599
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