Switzerland, Lucerne
c. 1530
Pot metal; white glass and silver stain
39 x 29.5 (15 3/8 x 11 5/8)
Pitting throughout; numerous cracks
Provenance: Lord Sudeley, Toddington Castle, Gloucestershire, to l 9 l l; Theodore Fischer, Lucerne, to 1922; George G. Booth, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Bibliography: Sudeley sale (1911), 64, no. 78; Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 4/7 (1923), 59-60; Hans Lehman, Geschichte der Luzerner Glasmälerei van der Anfangen bis zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts (Lucerne, 1941), 56, fig. 97 (here labeled Schnyder of Sursee, and incorrectly identified as in the collection of the Schweizerisches’ Landesmuseum, Zurich).
Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan)
Object/Accession: 23.5, Gift of George G. Booth
Arms: Gules a pair of shears gules
Attributed to Anton Schiterberg (active c. 1520-1561) (?)