Switzerland
1685
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and enamel
65.2 x 52.7 (25 5/8 x 20 3/4)
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: 25.135.155 (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
Arms: (LEFT) Quarterly, l (insert, not original) and 4, azure a fess between in chief a fleur-de-lis set on th e fess in base a star of six points all or, 2 and 3 gules a cross botony argent (Wallier quartering Cressier); crest: above a barred helm to sinister, a coronet, a demi-swan proper bearing on her head a fleur-de-lis or; mantlin g or and gules; (RIGHT) (arms an insert, not original); crest: above a barred helm to dexter, a baron ‘s coronet, a plume of five ostrich feathers argent (von Roll); mantling azure and argent
Inscription: JR. J OHAN FRANZ WALLIER DER JUNGEREN / RATHEN GEWESTER VOGT ZU THIERSTEIN UND / FLUMENTHAL. FR. MARIA URSULA MUNTSCHI SIEN / ERSTE FR. MARIA URSULA VO ROLL SEIN ANDERE EHEGMALIN / 1685.
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