Switzerland
1637
White glass with silver stain and enamel
31.7 x 21.6 (12 1/2 x 8 1/2)
Stopgaps on right side include parts of a Birth of the Virgin scene and architectural pieces at top
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: Azure on a mount a housemark over an arrow or feathered argent, two rosettes or and argent (unidentified); crest: on a barred helm a demi-stag pierced in the breast with an arrow all proper; mantling
Inscriptions: in cartouche: Mitt fleissden brun de[…] bisho[…]/ Gotts anaden[.] schenck Stullmund touu/ erquickt die Segl. Macht […] fructbar/ und der […] grunt als da[.]ar/ Schwases und stinckend[.] Sod/ Meid auch die falichen Heren Schnod/; above Isaiah: Brunnen des/ Sa: benss on scroll: AVE·MAR; lower cartouche: Hr. Heinrich Dur […]r/ Rahts zu Burg[· ]dorf […]nd der/ zyt vogt zu So[…]sll AÁ 1637