Switzerland, Lucerne
1662
White glass with silver stain and enamel
67.3 X 50.8 (26 1/2 X 20)
Numerous repaired and some unprepared cracks
Provenance: Charles Gallery, New York; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1945
Bibliography: Hearst ms. (1942), no. 254; LACMA Quarterly (I944), 5; Normile (1946), 43-44.
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, California)
Object/Accession: 45.21.29 William Randolph Hearst Collection
Arms: (LEFT) Azure a triangle argent and within another triangle inverted of the same between three stars of six points or (Balthasar); crest: on a barred helm to sinister a wreath of the colors and thereon a demo-man garbed in the first and charged upon his breast as the field; mantling of the first and third; (RIGHT) Sable a scythe blade argent a bordure or (Siigesser); crest: on a barred helm to dexter a wreath of the colors and thereon a pair of scythe blades adored of the second; mantling of the colors
Inscription: Hr. Melchior Balthasar alt Sek-/ elmeister und des Inneren Chats Lobl:/ Statt Luce. fr. Jacoben Sagisserin/ sein EheG: 1662