Southern Germany, Constance (?)
1618
Pot metal; flashed glass abraded; white glass with silver stain and enamel
38.7 x 37.4 (15 1/4 x 14 3/4)
Replacements at top of panel; cut off on left side
Provenance: William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1945
Bibliography: Hearst ms. (1942), no. 25 3; LACMA Quarterly (1944), 5; Normile (1946), 43-44.
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, California)
Object/Accession: 45.21.28 William Randolph Hearst Collection
Arms: (left to right) 1. Or two arrows per saltire proper surmounted by in chief a demi-mill wheel sable in base a hunting horn of the same; 2. Azure a pretzel or; 3. Purpure in chief a carpenters’ square or and in base a mill wheel sable; 4. Gules in chief two stars of six points or in base a pretzel of the same; 5. Argent a brewers’ malt scoop and brewers’ stirring paddle in saltire or a pretzel overall; 6. Azure in chief a daisy or in base a pretzel of the same; 7. Vert a mill wheel sable
Inscriptions: 1. […]s/ [… m]; 2. Jerg Holl/ postmaister; 3. Bartlome/ Molemhrey; 4. Jacob/ Munding; 5. Jerg/ Sorger; 6. Hanns eng/ ellhartt bier/ Briiwer; 7. Hann[.] Molen/ -Brey; 8. Caspar heng/ gell/ Burger Zu 9. Mathe[…]/ Steche[…]/ Riedlin[…]; above names: 16 18