Switzerland
16th century
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain and enamel
Diameter: 38 (15)
Some cracks and mending leads; the small shields which should surround the edge are missing
Provenance: Lord Sudeley, Toddington Castle, Gloucestershire; Helbing Galleries, Munich, to 1911
Bibliography: Sudeley sale (1911), 54, no. 68.
Collection: Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum and Cranbrook Educational Community (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan)
Object/Accession: CEC-698
Arms: Or a double-headed eagle nimbed and displayed sable armed gules (Holy Roman Empire); gules a bend or with a bear sable thereon (Bern) twice repeated; support ers: two lions rampant one holding the banner of Bern the other a sword and the Imperial orb
Inscription: Loblich Statt B[….]