Switzerland, Zurich
1683
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain and enamel
50.2 x 38.l (19 3/4 x 15)
Some unmended cracks in upper left and across arms in panel
Provenance: Countess de Bourg, Paris; A. Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York
Bibliography: Unpublished
Collection: The Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Maryland)
Object/Accession: 46.51
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4 argent a stag lodged gules (Hirtzel); 2 and 3 per fess in chief or a tree proper in base paley of five azure and argent (von Salis); crest: (dexter) on a wreath of the colors a demi-stag issuant gules (sinister) from a ducal coronet a demi-angel crowned and winged or garbed azure; mantling (dexter) gules and argent, (sinister) azure and or Jakob Weber II from Winterthur
Inscriptions: top, on canon: BELLYM; on staff right: FAMA; on right banner: IVTITIA; on right shield: CVP/DO; on center shield FORTI -/ TYDO/ PARIT/ HONO/REM; left column: Deus sit Nobiscum; right column top: MINERVA; right column base: I. Web: M. W.; bottom cartouche: Johan Heinrich Hirtzel Rittmeister und/ des Rahts Lobl: Statt Zurich diser Zeit Grichts-/ ker der Herschafft (Elggow und Fr. Violan-/da Hirtzlin gebohrne von Salis sein Ehegma-/hel A 1683; Signed: I.WEB. M.W.
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