Germany or Italy (?)
c. 1700
White glass with silver stain and enamel
A: 23.8 X 29.3 (9 3/8 x 11 1/2); B: 23.6 x 29.3 (9 1/4 x 11 1/2); C and D: 23.5 x 29.5 (9 1/4 x 11 1/2)
A. Two leaded cracks; B. enamel flaking
Provenance: Grosvenor Thomas, London, to 1913; Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Purchase, N.Y., to 1935; P.W. French & Co., New York, to 1944; Preston Pope Satterwhite, Great Neck, N.Y.
Bibliography: French & Co. Stock Sheets, GCPA 0305041, C-F; Drake (1913), I: 48, (A) no. 255, (B) no. 2611 (C) no. 259, (D) no. 258; Whitelaw Reid sale (1935), 390, no. 1549.
Collection: J.B. Speed Museum (Louisville, Kentucky)
Object/Accession: A. 44.31.2; B. 44.31.3; C. 44.31.18; D. 44.31.19
Arms: A. In a cartouche: argent a chevron gules between two mullets azure and in base a tree proper in chief a fess of the second charged with three crescents of the first (unidentified); crest: ensigned with a count’s coronet; supporters: two lions rampant proper; B. In a cartouche: quarterly; 1 and 4 fretty sable and argent in chief a fess or charged with three chicks sable; 2 and 3 or a lion rampant sable (unidentified); crest: on ducal coronet the patriarchal cross or and a cardinal’s hat gules; a mantle of the arms lined ermine; suspended from the cartouche the badge of the Order of Malta; C. In a cartouche: (LEFT) azure a unicorn rampant proper in chief three mullets argent (unidentified); (RIGHT) azure a rocky mount proper and in chief the sun in splendor between two mullets or (unidentified); D. In a cartouche: argent a fess sable charged with a fleur-de-lis or between three roses gules barbed and seeded or (unidentified); crest: ensigned by a marquis’ coronet; supporters: a pair of eagles reguardant with wings displayed and inverted proper