Switzerland, Winterthur
c. 1660-1685
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain and enamel
46.5 X 32.5 (183/s X 123/4)
Stopgaps include: entire upper scene, cartouche below shields and bottom shield; some rearrangements and stopgaps upper right, lower center, and lower cartouche; extensive mending leads
Provenance: Goldschmidt Galleries, New York; George G. Booth, Bloomfield Hills
Bibliography: Unpublished. Related material: Paul Boesch, Die Alten Glasmaler van Winterthur und ihr Werk, 286 Neujahrsblatt der Stadtbibliothek Winterthur (Winterthur, 1955), 83, fig. 23 (similar panel).
Collection: Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum and Cranbrook Educational Community (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan)
Object/Accession: CAAM 1926.10
Arms: Or a double-headed eagle nimbed and displayed sable armed gules (Holy Roman Empire), per pale argent and gules (Stein-am-Rhein) twice repeated; on left flag: St. George and the dragon
Inscriptions: top scroll: Ein Lorbeer Zweig mein/ Schwert umfast davon above garland: Pacis me[…] belli/ [..]cis medi belli; beside Empire shield: VIRTVTI HONOR lowest level, to left and right: Die St[…] Stein/ 16[.]5/ I.W. (signa ture) cartouche below shields: [.]aller ge/ Schwartzer des grichts zu / letzer der Kirchen uff Burg und Rats/ [..]n und Fr. Elissbetha Stahelin/ gmahel; above bottom shield: GRAMATICA
Jacob Weber, the Younger (1637-1685)