Switzerland, Lucerne
c. 1560
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and enamel
41.0 x 32.1 (16 1/8 x 12 5/8)
Mantling and background pieces to the right of right-hand lion crest are replacements
Provenance: William H. Riggs, Paris
Bibliography: Dean (1925), 288-289.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 25.135.163 (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
Arms: (LEFT) Or two boat hooks sable in saltire (van Wyl); crest: above a barred helm in profile a lion issuant and collared or holding a boat hook sable; mantling of the colors; (RIGHT) argent a lion rampant gules, armed argent (Feer); crest: above a barred helm in profile a lion issuant gules armed argent; mantling of the colors
Inscription: ANO DOM / NI 15/[…]9
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