Switzerland
1685
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and enamel
64.8 x 52.7 (25 1/2 x 20 3/4)
Piece at lower left missing; distortion in upper right due to mending leads
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: 25.135.15 7 (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
Arms: (LEFT) Azure a rose argent seeded or barbed vert, in base three rocky mounds proper (Sury); crest: on a barred helm to sinister, a coronet, three rocky mounds, and a rose as the field; mantling azure and argent; (RIGHT) azure a cuckoo proper on three rocky mounds vert between two roses or in bend (Gugger); crest: on a barred helm to dexter, a ducal coronet, a demi-swan proper bearing upon her head and neck three fleurs-de-lis (Vallier); mantling or and azure
Inscription: HAUPTMAN JACOB SURI DER ELTEREN / RATHEN UND STATT MAIOR. FR. MARIA / BARBEL SURI EIN GEBORNE VALLIERIN SEIN / EHEGMAHLIN. 1685.
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