Switzerland, Lucerne
1663
White glass with silver stain and enamel
69.2 x 52.1 (27 1/4 x 20 1/2)
Two losses; several repaired and unprepared cracks
Provenance: Charles Gallery, New York; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1945
Bibliography: Hearst ms. (1942), no. 267; LACMA Quarterly (1944), 5; Normile(1946), 43-44.
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, California)
Object/Accession: 45.21.42 William Randolph Hearst Collection
Arms: (LEFT) Sable a fleur-de-lis or within a bordure of the last (Pfiffer); crest: on a barred helm to sinister a ducal coronet and thereon a demi-vol of the first charged as the field; mantling of the colors; (RIGHT) Or three moors heads coupes two and one proper within a bordure of the first (Mohr); crest: on a barred helm to dexter a turban of the colors and therefrom three ostrich feathers of the second and the first; mantling of the colors
Inscription: Hr. Caspar Pfiffer Ritter und fenner des ineren/ Raths lobl: Statt lucem Gewesner Landvogt der Grafschaft zu/ Rottenburg und Laiiwis wie Eich oberziigherr disser Statt und/ Fr: Maria Jacobe Morin sin Ehemalig: Anno 1663: