Switzerland, Zurich or Thurgau (?)
1667
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain and enamel
33.0 X 22.6 (13 X 8 7/8)
Glass heavily corroded; right part of upper inscription replaced; loss in arms
Provenance: James A. Garland, Boston, to 1924; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1945
Bibliography: Hearst ms. (1942), no. 259; Garland sale (1924), n.p., no. 330; LACMA Quarterly (1944), 5; Normile (1946), 43-44.
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, California)
Object/Accession: 45.21.34 William Randolph Hearst Collection
Arms: (above on horse) ? a demo-mill iron sable surmounted by the initials K E (unidentified); (below, upper shield) Or in base a mill iron sable and a chief azure (Muller); (below, lower shield) Gules in chief a key argent in base a leaf slipped vert (unidentified)
Inscriptions: upper cartouche: Fi ei[.]e [.][…]I wil ich[…]/ Mein G[…] und […]/ […] alle […]/ [.]er m[…] motto in scene: Frid bringt S[.]gen/ Krieg lost Lieben lower cartouche: Jacob Muller/ Comet burgher und und-/ ermiiller zu Elggoiiw/ und fr. Aii Ehrspiirgeri/ und Fr. Anna Vetter/ ge gemahel. beside Muller shield: [..]67