Germany, Lake Constance region, Ueberlingen
1559
Pot metal and white glass with silver stain
40.5 X 29.4 (I6 X I J3/4)
Minor old replacement of glass
Provenance: Walter von Pannwitz, Bennebroek; William G. Mather, Cleveland
Bibliography: Otto von Falke, Die Kunstsammlung van Pannwitz, 2 Skulpturen und Kunstgewerbe (Munich, 1925), 11, no. 103.
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio)
Object/Accession: 53.283 Gift of William G. Mather
Arms: Or a double-headed eagle displayed sable crowned or, on an inescutcheon or a lion rampant gules crowned or (Ueberlingen); helm and mantling; crest: on a coronet, a demi? lion issuant holding a sword erect Above left to right: Argent a cross gules (archbishop Trier); Argent a cross sable (archbishop Cologne); Argent a lion rampant turned to sinister crowned or (Bohemia); Or a double-headed eagle displayed sable (The Empire); Gules a wheel argent (archbishop Mainz); Sable a lion rampant or (Palatinate); Barruly or and sable, a crancelin or in bend (Saxony); Argent an eagle displayed or, the wings charged with a fillet (Brandenburg)
Inscription: Die Statt Uberlingen 1559