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Two Heraldic Marriage Panels

Two Heraldic Marriage PanelsSwitzerland, Basel
1588
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain, enamel, and sanguine; flashed and abraded red
A: 34.2 x 26-4 (13 7/16 x 10 3/8); B: 31.8 x 25.7 (12 1/8 x 10 1/16)
A. Mending leads; replacements at left center and upper right comer; stopgaps upper center; B. Cracks and mending leads; upper central scene a replacement; upper spandrels stopgaps

Provenance: Sibyll Kummer-Rothenhäusler, Zurich
Bibliography: Unpublished

Collection: Private Collection (Hillsborough, California)
Object/Accession: Related material: Paul Leonard Garz, Die Basler Glasmaler der Renaissance und der Barok zeit (Basel, 1966), 78 (a drawing for a Bischof (?) Foch panel).

A. 441/10; B. 367/15
A. Arms of Lienhart Litzelman and Dorothea Vogel. Arms: (LEFT) Or a housemark sable (Litzelman); crest: over a closed helm to sinister four ostrich feathers or and sable; mantling of the colors; (RIGHT) Sable upon a triple mount argent a phoenix rising or (Vogel); crest: over a closed helm to dexter charged as the shield; mantling of the colors; B. Arms of Niklaus Bischof and Margret Fohen. Arms: (LEFT) Argent a crozier or against a black umbrella shape (Bischof); crest: over a closed helm to sinister two vols of the first and second charged as the field; mantling of the colors; (RIGHT) Argent a forearm gules holding a cock gules (Fohen); crest: over a closed helm to dexter a cock charged as the field; mantling or and sable
Inscriptions: A. Lienhart Litzelman and I Dorothea Vogel sein Ehliche hus/ 1588; B. Nicolaus Bischoff Un Margret/ Fohenin sin Ehwyb Anno 1588
Attributed to Johan Plepp, Basel, active c. 1557-1598

Entry From: Checklist III Filed Under: California, Hillsborough, Private Collection

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