Switzerland, Lucerne
1663
White glass with silver stain and enamel
67.6 X 51.4 (26 5/8 X 20 1/4)
Some losses and numerous repaired cracks
Provenance: Charles Gallery, New York; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1945
Bibliography: Hearst ms. (1942), no. 255; LACMA Quarterly (1944), 5; Normile (1946), 43-44.
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, California)
Object/Accession: 45.21.30 William Randolph Hearst Collection
Arms: (LEFT) Gules two sickles addorsed proper on a triple mount vert in chief a fleur-de-lis or (Schumacher); crest: on a barred helm to sinister a demi-man garbed in the first charged upon his breast with a fleur-de-lis or and holding in his dexter and sinister hands a pair of sickles proper; (RIGHT) Quarterly; l gules a fish tool proper between two rings argent; 2 sable a bend sinister wavy argent; 3 argent a tree slipped proper a bordure or; 4 sable a scythe blade argent a bordure or (Petermann)
Inscription: Hr. Melchior Schuomacher dess Inneren / Raths und Venner lobl: Statt Lucern Gewesner Landtvogt / der Graffschaft Zu Wilisauw und Fr. Anna Petermann/ sin Eheliche Gemalin Anno: 1663: (monogram) H