England, Hale Hall, Lancashire
Mid-17th century
White glass with silver stain and enamel
43.2 x 32.4 (17 x 12 3/4)
Mantling replaced at bottom and on right side; blue enamel flaked; marked 1288
Provenance: Sir Gilbert Ireland, Hale Hall, Hale, Lancashire; Grosvenor Thomas, London, to 18 February 1926; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1941; P.W. French & Co., New York; Preston Pope Satterwhite, Great Neck, N.Y.
Bibliography: Grosvenor Thomas Stock Book no. I, 216-217, item no. 1288; C.W. Post Catalogue (1939), vols. 101-104, lot no. 467-4; Hearst sale (1941), 330, lot no. 467-4.
Collection: J.B. Speed Museum (Louisville, Kentucky)
Object/Accession: 44.31.6
Arms: Quarterly of 21; 1 argent three boar’s heads erect and erased sable (Booth); 2 argent a fess engrailed gules (Bamforth); 3 azure two bars and in chief as many mullets argent (Venables); 4 argent a bend azure charged with three garbs or (Fitton); 5 quarterly azure and or (? Rossington); 6 argent a bend or (? Cheverston); 7 vert a cross engrailed ermine (Kingsley); 8 argent a bugle horn stringed sable (Kingsley, Hereditary Forester of Delamere); 9 or a saltire sable (Hellesby); ro argent a chevron between three garbs or, a crescent sable in fess point for difference (Hatton); 11 bendy of ten or and azure (Montfort of Bescote); 12 argent billettee a lion rampant sable (Planche); 13 argent on a chief sable two fleur-de-lis or (? Clinton); 14 argent semy of crosses crosslet and three fleur-de-lis within a bordure sable (? Beresford); r 5 argent a pale engrailed sable (Erskine); r 6 azure a lion rampant double-queued or (Stapleton); 17 argent a mullet sable (Ashton); 18 argent a chevron engrailed azure (Askoby); 19 argent on a chief or (recte gules) a wyvern passant sable (recte or) (Macclesfield); 20 argent a lion rampant or (recte gules) between three pheons sable within a bordure engrailed sable (Egerton); 21 or three piles azure on a canton argent a griffin segreant azure (Bassett); over all a label of five points azure; helm with torse azure and sable and mantling or and argent; crest: a lion passant argent gorged with a label of five points or