Switzerland
1573
White glass with silver stain, and enamel; flashed and abraded glass
34.9 X 27.4 (13 3/4 X 10 l/4)
Condition/replacements not noted
Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Watkins, Winona, Minn.
Bibliography: Watkins House (1928), 223-235; Dignified Gothic (1928), 66-67, 102; Art Objects (1957).
Collection: The Watkins Home (Winona, Minnesota)
Object/Accession: Great Hall
Arms: (LEFT) Gules, per bend sinister barrelstaves proper, in canton a mullet or (unidentified); crest: on a wreathed tilting helm a cock hardi (RIGHT) Sable per bend wood planking proper (unidentified); crest: on a wreathed tilting helm a pair of vols charged as the field; (ENFRAMING, CLOCKWISE FROM UPPER LEFT) 1. Or a leopard rampant argent swallowing a fish (unidentified); 2.,3. Sable three vols raised argent (unidentified); 4., 5., 6. Per fess argent and gules, a tree uprooted, bearing cones, a tanner’s knife (Forrer); 7. Azure a quatrefoil argent (unidentified); 8. Argent a woman with comb and pot (Stafen); 9. Gules a swan argent (Horgen); 10. Or a lion rampant sable, in chief sinister a mullet or (Heggi); 11. Azure damasked impaling gules a tree stump uprooted or (Elgg?); 12., 13. tenne a housemark sable (unidentified); 14. Argent (charge unidentified); 15. Azure a fess unduly argent (unidentified); 16. Or a leopard’s head sable couped (unidentified); 17. Azure two scepters argent (unidentified)
Inscriptions: on cartouche: Ludwyg Bruggler und frouw Sala[.]ne · N[.]gelin · above cartouche: 15[.]3; with shield from upper left: 1. Mamdoet[.]; 2., 3. […]/ Br[..] Ludwig/ [.]caaf; 4., 5., 6. Geremias/ Forrer·Leobardt / Forrer- Georg/ Forrer; 7. […]; 8. Stafen 9. Horgen 10. Heggi; 11. [.]lgg; 12. Riimlang; 13. [.]egman; 14. Dastmyl; 15. Stenn […]; 16. [.]ellendu[.]en; 17. […]r […]n