Germany, Middle Rhine
c. 1440-1450
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain
1) 47.8 x 81.4 (18 3/4 x 32); 2) 48 X 81.5 (18 7/8 x 32 1/8)
Upper part of shield patched with stopgaps
Provenance: Musee van Stalk, Haarlem; A. Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1954
Bibliography: C.W. Post Catalogue (1939), vols. 101-104, lot no. 99-27; Forest Lawn Archives (1956), lot no. 99-27; Catalogue des sculptures, tableaux, tapis etc. formant la collection d’objets d’art du Musee van Stolk, Harlem (The Hague, 1912), no 693; Hearst sale (1941), 329, lot no. 99-27.
Collection: Forest Lawn (Glendale, California)
Object/Accession: FL lots 25, 26
Arms: Or two lions rampant gules (unidentified); crest: a crozier proper; supporter: an angel garbed in white proper