Switzerland, Bern
1626
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain, enamel, and sanguine
28.2 x 19.3 (11 1/16 x 7 9/16)
Cracks; mending leads; stopgaps upper comers
Provenance: Sibyll Kummer-Rothenhäusler, Zurich
Bibliography: Unpublished
Collection: Private Collection (Hillsborough, California)
Object/Accession: 423/48
Arms: (LEFT) Or three trees proper and three logs interwoven with their trunks (Holtzer); crest: a closed helm to sinister surmounted by a tree; (RIGHT) Quarterly; 1 and 4 azure three crescents argent; 2 and 3 lozengy gules and argent (Freudenreich); crest: over a helm to dexter a demi-man charged on his breast as the first holding in each hand a fleur-de-lis
Inscription: above: Ein Fromden dich umb herberg bitt./ schlach Ims nit Ab. Betracht hiemit/ das du ouch fromd bist hie uff Erden/ Begerst von Gott Beherberg Zu erden; below: H. Samuel/ Holtzer. und H:/ Michel. Froiid/ enrych: beid des Rat/ der Statt Bern. 1626