Switzerland or South Germany, Constance (?)
c. 1650
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and enamel
46.3 x 43.2 (18 1/4 x 17)
Piece missing at upper right
Provenance: William H. Riggs, Paris
Bibliography: Dean (1925), 288-289.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 25.135.166 (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
Arms: Quarterly, land 4 argent a cross gules (Bishopric of Constance), 2 and 3 sable an annulet argent (unknown); crest: two bishop ‘s mitres, the first charged with the Virgin and Child on a crescent proper (Constance), the second with an abbot’s crozier (Reichenau), over all or and gules the papal umbrella; as supporter, the nimbed lion of St. Mark holding in his sinister paw a sword proper
Inscriptions: ORA PRO / NOBIS S. DEi / GENETRIX (above arms); MARX VON GOTTES GNADEN / ABBT DES GOTDHAUS RICHENOU (below arms); GREGOR /IVS, IHEGRON I NIMVS, AGUSTIN VS, AMBROSI VS (at sides of panel)
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