Switzerland
1684
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and ena1rrel
64.8 x 50.8 (25 1/2 x 20)
Right half of shield filled with stopgaps; two breaks on left of panel
Provenance: William H. Riggs, Paris
Bibliography: Unpublished
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 25.135.159 (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
Arms: Quarterly (probably), l(and probably 4) argent three lions passant sable, (probably 2 and) 3 paly of five or and gules (Chapter of Sts. Ursus and Victor, Solothurn)
Inscription: (below arms) PRAEPOSITVS ET CAPITVLVM. / S.SM. VRSI ET VICTORIS SOCIORVM ET / THEBAEOR MART: SOLODORI 1684; (above arms) SUB PRAESIDTVM TVVM CONFVGIM; DIE LUDEN WOLTEN CHRISTOS VON […] / KETZHERN SPRECHEN LUCE X CP
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