Switzerland, Lucerne
1662
White glass with silver stain and enamel
70.5 x 52.1 (27 3/4 x 20 1/2)
Upper part of right arms repaired; numerous losses around cartouche
Provenance: Charles Gallery, New York; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1945
Bibliography: Hearst ms. (1942), no. 258; LACMA Quarterly (1944), 5; Normile (1946), 43-44.
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, California)
Object/Accession: 45.21.33 William Randolph Hearst Collection
Arms: (LEFT) Quarterly; l and 4 per bend purpure a reichsapfel or bendy of four or and vert (Fleckenstein); 2 and 3 per pale or and sable (unidentified); crest: (LEFT) on a ducal coronet a demi-vol charged bendy as the first; mantling of the colors; (RIGHT) on a ducal coronet two buffalo horns charged as the second; (RIGHT) Argent a pale sable charged with two broad arrows proper (Meyer); crest: on a wreath of the colors a demi-moor garbed and charged as the field; mantling of the colors
Inscriptions: above: IHS; in cartouche: Hr. Obrister Heinrich Fleckenstein Ritter/ Schultheiss und Bannerherr Loblicher Statt Lu-/ -cern Herr Zu Heidegg Und fraw Elisabetha/ Meyerin sein Ehegemachell. Anno 1662