Southern Lowlands, Antwerp (?)
c. 1520
Pot metal; white glass with double silver stain
48 X 36.5 (18 7/8 x 14 3/8)
Provenance: Sir Thomas Neave, Bart., Dagnam Park, Essex; Grosvenor Thomas, London; Roy Grosvenor Thomas, London and New York, to 1923; S. Vernon Mann, Great Neck, N.Y., to 1931; Sotheby’s, New York, 1986, unidentified owner
Bibliography: Grosvenor Thomas Stock Book I, 106-107, item no. N 49; Fine English Furniture, Early English Stained Glass, English eJ Chinese Porcelains, Georgian Silver Collected by S. Vernon M ann [sale cat., American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, 29-30 January] (New York, 1932), 65, no. 249;
Collection: Private Collection (Hillsborough, California)
Object/Accession: European Works of Art, Armour, Furniture and Tapestries [sale cat., Sotheby’s, 25 November] (New York, 1986), n.p., no. 179.
A 336A
Inscriptions: left scroll: COMEDITE·AMICJ ãET·BIBITE·z·cati·v; right scroll: SIC’-LETATJUãOMãHJA0·Ï·i·TE·PS 86