Switzerland
17th century, late
White glass with silver stain, sanguine, Jean Cousin, and enamel
45 x 33 (17 3/4 x 13)
Some repair leads and cracks; small restoration at lower right; lower inscription renewed
Provenance: Lord Sudeley, Toddington Castle, Gloucestershire; Theodore Fischer, Lucerne; George G. Booth, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Bibliography: Sudeley sale (1911), 117, no. 177; Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 4/7 (1923), 60; Jenny Schneider, “Zeugnisse schweizerischer Glasmälerei in amerikanischen Museen,” Zeitschrift fur schweizerische Archaologie und Kunstgeschichte 19 (1959), 97.
Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan)
Object/Accession: 23.7, Gift of George G. Booth
Arms: Azure impaling argent on a chief azure crossed batons piercing wreaths or repeated in both (Steckborn)
Inscriptions: Above shield: Frid ernert/ Unfrid ner Zert; bottom: Die Statt Und [ ]ummun/ Steckborn im Thurgauw/ Anno 1661
Attributed to Wolfgang Spengler (c. 1624-1684)