Switzerland
c. 1550
Pot meal; white glass with silver stain and enamel
Diameter: 32 (12 5/8)
Some repair leads; inscription modern
Provenance: Lord Sudeley, Toddington Castle, Gloucestershire, to 1911; Theodore Fischer, Lucerne, to 1922; George G. Booth, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to 1923
Bibliography: Sudeley sale (1911), 61, no. 75; Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 4/7 (1923), 59; Jenny Schneider, “Zeugnisse schweizerischer Glasmälerei in amerikanischen Museen,î Zeitschrift fur schweizerische Archaologie und Kunstgeschichte 19 (1959), 97.
Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan)
Object/Accession: 23.41 Gift of George G. Booth
Arms: Argent a tower bridge sable; supported by two bears with halbards (Brugg)
Inscription: Brugg
Attributed to Jacob Brunner (active 1545-1587)