Switzerland 16th
16th century
White glass with silver stain and enamel
34.3 x 26 (13 1/2 x 10 1/4)
Condition/replacements not noted
Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Watkins, Winona, Minn.
Bibliography: Watkins House (1928), 223-235; Dignified Gothic (1928), 66-67, 102; Art Objects (1957).
Collection: The Watkins Home (Winona, Minnesota)
Object/Accession: Great Hall
Arms: (LEFT) Or a fess gules, in chief and in base three single-headed eagles rampant sable (unidentified); crest: a barred helm to sinister crowned feathered and charged as the field (RIGHT) Azure a serpent or crested, in his mouth a leaf vert (unidentified); crest: on a barred helm to dexter a demi-man holding two serpents charged as the field; (TOP, LEFT TO RIGHT) 1. Azure on a sun or a housemark argent (Feiner); 2. Tenne a housemark sable (unidentified); 3. Azure two crescent moons adossed or (unidentified); 4. Azure a fess or, in chief and in base three mullets or, in base two arrows crossed (unidentified)
Inscriptions: 1. M: Lorentz Feiner:/ Schmidt Zue St: Gid[…] 2. David Egger Amm[…] us Tablat· 3. Caspar Kates [..]gamdi[…]/ des Berichts in Tablatt/ Vires· 4. Hans L[…]oer/ Schenck […]ttsch […]/ der […]