Germany, Freiburg i.Br., or Switzerland, Basel (?)
c. 1515
Pot metal and white glass with silver stain
38.5 x 28.8 (15 1/4 x 11 5/16)
A few unmended breaks; loose leads
Provenance: Lord Sudeley, Toddington Castle, Gloucestershire; Galerie Helbing, Munich; R. Zahn, Plauen; Galerie Helbing, Munich; Walter von Pannwitz, Bennebroek; Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York
Bibliography: Sudeley sale (1911), 102, no. 151, ill.; Galerie Helbing, Sammlungen Direktor R. Zahn, Plauen, Abteilung I, Antiquitäten (Munich, 1917), no. 731 pl. XIII; Otto von Falke, ed., Die Kunstsammlung van Pannwitz, 2 Skulpturen und Kunstgewerbe (Munich, 1925), 10, no. 98, pl. XXI; Art Quarterly 17 (Autumn 1954), 301; Hans Christoph von Tavel et al., Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, Maler, Dichter, Staatsmann, ed. C. Menz and H. Wagner [exh. cat., Kunstmuseum] (Bern, 1979), no. 270, 432, ill.
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio)
Object/Accession: 54.149, J.H. Wade Fund
Arms: Sable an axe and a wing inverted or (Lichtenfels); helm and mantling; crest: on a coronet two swan’s heads proper entwined
Cartoon (except for the unicorn hunt) attributed to Niklaus Manuel (active 1518)