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Heraldic Panel: Arms of Gerold I Zurlauben, Abbot of Rheinau, and Symbols of Four Evangelists

Heraldic Panel: Arms of Gerold I Zurlauben, Abbot of Rheinau, and Symbols of Four EvangelistsSwitzerland, Zurich (?)
1600
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain and enamel
42.0 x 32.0 (16 1/2 x 12 9/16)
Some mended cracks

Provenance: Countess de Bourg, Paris; A. Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York
Bibliography: Unpublished

Collection: The Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Maryland)
Object/Accession: 46.49

Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4 azure a fish argent (Rheinau), 2 pourpure on a triple mount vert a tree branch couped and leafed proper (Zur Lauben), 3 pourpure on a triple mount vert an S argent between two bells or (unidentified); crest: abbot’s mitre crozier and stole floating
Inscription: Geroldus abtt des wir/ digen Gottsh11s und/ Kloster Ryhnaou/ 1600

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