Six heraldic panels from the William Randolph Hearst Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, from Checklist III, pps. 75-77
A. 45.21.58
Northern Lowlands
1620
White glass with silver stain and enamel
83.2 x 47.0 (32 3/4 x 18 1/2)
Some repaired and some unmended cracks
Arms: Azure a chevron reversed argent between in chief or a crescent within a crescent in base two demi-fleur-de-lis of the same (unidentified); crest: on a barred helm to sinister a wreath of the first and the second and thereon two crescents as the field; mantling of the colors
Inscription: Vertú vaúlt millieur/ q’argent,/ Anno. 1620.
B. 45.21.59
Northern Lowlands
1620
White glass with silver stain and enamel
83.7 x 45.2 (32 7/8 x 17 3/4)
Some repaired and some unmended cracks
Arms: Gules on a mount sable a warrior holding in his dexter hand a shield and in his sinister hand a sword displayed all proper (unidentified); crest: on a barred helm to sinister a wreath of the first and argent and thereon a demi-warrior garbed as the field; mantling of the colors
Inscription: ANNO, 1620,
C. 45.21.57
Northern Lowlands
1620 and 1625
White glass with silver stain and enamel
84.4 X 45.1 (33 1/4 X 17 3/4)
Some repaired and some unmended cracks; one small insert in lower right corner
Arms: Per fess tierced in pale; 1 argent a lion rampant sable on a grapevine stalked, leaved, and fructed proper; 2 azure three turrets, two and one proper; 3 argent a bend sinister azure cottised or between two horseshoes of the same; 4 per fess in chief chequy sable and or in base argent three escallops, two and one, proper; 5 azure palewis.e three crescents or impaling per fess in chief quarterly 1 and 4 argent a cross formy sable 2 and 3 counterchanged, in base argent three annulets cojoined or from which depends a fleece of the same; 6 or a demi-eagle displayed, crowned and holding in his sinister claw a sword sable (unidentified); crest: on a barred helm to dexter a lion rampant couped gules holding in his claws a grapevine stalked, leaved, and fructed proper; mantling vert and argent
Inscription: below arms: .F.V.L./ Ano. 1625; in cartouche: Anno/ 1620
D. 45.21.57
Northern Lowlands
1623 and 1670
White glass with silver stain and enamel
83.5 x 47.0 (23 7/8 x 18 1/2)
Some repaired and some unmended cracks
Arms: Argent in chief a pair of wood adzes per saltire proper and above a coronet or in base a housemark sable (unidentified); crest: on a barred helm to dexter a wood adze proper and thereon a coronet or; mantling of the colors
Inscription: below arms: Die godt den Heere vreest sal sijn gemoet/ of geest in voorspoet met Eve heffen./ Noch ooch teseer veersalen wanneer hem/ Veele Qualen of tegen spoede treffen./ Andries Pietersz Ommerman/ Ano 1670; in cartouche: ANNO/ 1623
E. 45.21.56
Northern Lowlands
1625
White glass with silver stain and enamel
83.2 X 47.3 (32 3/4 x l8 5/8)
Some repaired and some unmended cracks
Arms: Quarterly; 1 and 4 azure a naked savage holding in his dexter and sinister hands two palm branches and standing upon a fountain from which drink two swans all proper; 2 and 3 or an Imperial eagle sable impaling azure a fess gules between three cygnets, two and one proper (unidentified); crest: on a barred helm to dexter a demi-savage as the field; mantling or and azure
Inscription: Semper vivet palma/1625
F. 45.21.55
Northern Lowlands
1625
White glass with silver stain and enamel
83.5 x 47.0 (32 7/8 x 18 1/2)
Some repaired and some unmended cracks; some losses of enamel
Arms: Barry of six or and argent the first charged with five saltires gules a quarter chevronny or and gules in fess point a moor’s head couped proper (unidentified); crest: on a barred helm to dexter a wreath of the colors of the quarter and thereon two trees proper; mantling of the same
Inscription: Pieter Jansz Fisher
Provenance
William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1945
Bibliography
Hearst ms. (1942), nos. 283, 284, 282, 279, 281, 280; LACMA Quarterly (1944), 5; Normile (1946), 43-44.