Central panel: Germany; guild window debris: Switzerland
Central panel: 16th century; guild window debris: 17th century
Central panel: pot metal, white glass with silver stain; guild window debris: white glass with silver stain and enamel
106.5 x 61.5 (41 7/8 x 24 1/4); central panel: 62.0 x 50.0 (14 3/8 x r 9 5/8)
Restoration in the central panel
Provenance: Frederic B. Pratt, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Bibliography: Sturm (1982), 138.
Collection: Pratt Institute, The Caroline Ladd Pratt House (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: No accession number listed
Fragments of figural scenes in the guild window debris include: the Baptism of Christ, a seated bishop saint with a casket, the Virgin and Child, and a seated bearded saint (St. Gallus?); Arms in the guild window debris: (CENTRAL BOTTOM ESCUTCHEON) Quarterly, 1 or a bear rampant sable, 2 azure a Paschal Lamb, 3 argent a hen gules with comb and wattles bearing sable a cross gules, 4 or a dog sable collared of the field (St. Gall); (BORDER ARMORIALS CLOCKWISE FROM TOP) gules a chevron or, on the field three crescents argent; argent a cross azure, paly or and gules, a pickaxe proper, in chief two estoiles or; quarterly argent and gules, surmounting a baton or; argent an estoile or and a crescent azure; various other tradesmen’s implements and unidentified fragments@Inscription in guild window debris: SCHONBERG /BURGDORF/ SCHNELL SEINE […] 1682 (other fragmentary inscriptions untranscribed)
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