France, Alsace
1607
White glass with silver stain and enamels
38.0 x 28.0 (l5 x 11 7/16)
Several unmended breakages; the Evangelist possibly a stopgap
Provenance: Gift of the Estate of James Turner
Bibliography: Unpublished
Collection: The Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, New Jersey)
Object/Accession: 43.631
Arms: Argent damasked a cross gringolee gules, on the field two quatrefoils gules 2 and 3; with helm and mantling; crest: rising from a coronet a demi-griffin displayed of the same; supporters: St. John the Evangelist (inscribed) and an allegorical female figure
Inscriptions: top cartouche: In unghick hab eine Lebensmuth/ Traw Gott dein sach soll werden gutt/ Dan hoffnung ist der Tugend zier/ Auf hofnung werden erhaltten wier/ Hoff nung spricht hab ein gutten muth/ Verzag nicht es wirdt als werden gutt on cartouche over demi-griffin: Ich Wags Frolich/ Gott fogs glucklich; on left: S IOANES; on the cartouche below: Christoff Merckhel / bach ANNO 1607
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