Switzerland
1685
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and enamel
64.2 x 52.7 (25 1/4 x 20 3/4)
Arms on right not original; left half of inscription missing
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: 25.135.156 (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
Arms: (LEFT) Chequey or and gules on a chief azure a cross argent (Schwaller); crest: on a barred helm to sinister a wreath of the colors, a demi-horse proper; mantling of the colors; (RIGHT) (shield not original glass); crest: on a barred helm to dexter a ducal coronet, a demi-swan proper bearing on her head and neck seven fleurs-de-lis or (Vallier); mantling or and azure
Inscription: […]SCHWALLER GEWES / (… jTVO GT ZU GOSGEN / […]NA, GEBORNE WEILLIERIN SEIN / 1685
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