South Germany
c. 1470
A. and B. Pot metal glass; B. White glass with silver stain
46.5 x 33.8 (18 3/8 x 13 3/8) each
A. Some replacements in mantling and shield; B. Restoration in background; surface pitting
Provenance: A.S. Drey, Munich, to 1912; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1945
Bibliography: Hearst ms. (1942), nos. (A) 231, (B) 230; Normile (1946), 39-44, ill.
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, California)
Object/Accession: A. 45.21.7; B. 45.21.6 William Randolph Hearst Collection
A. Husband’s shield with millstones. Arms: Gules a pale sable charged with three millstones argent (unidentified); crest: on a tilting helm to sinister a demi-man garbed in the colors charged as the field and with eight millstones in his hair; mantling gules and argent; B. Wife’s shield with hound. Arms: Azure a hound passant argent (unidentified); crest: above a tilting helm to dexter a demi-hound saliant erased; mantling of the colors