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Composite Heraldic Quatrefoil with Feast and Battle Scenes

Composite Heraldic Quatrefoil with Feast and Battle ScenesGermany
c. 1550
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain and sanguine; sorting marks engraved on the inscription
Diameter: 44.8-45.3 (17 1/2 – 18)
Part of top lobe (battle) a replacement; left lobe a modern replacement; lower lobe a stopgap; heraldic center may be earlier than lobes

Provenance: Ruth Blumka, New York, to 1977
Bibliography: Unpublished. Related material: Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Nuremberg: A Renaissance City, 1500-1618 (Austin, 1983), 184, no. 82 (Beham print).

Collection: Collection of Peter Pellettieri (Burlington, Connecticut)
Object/Accession: SG 3

Arms: Argent two leopards passant reguardant contoume
Right lobe after a design for the Feast of Herodias by Sebald Beham (1500-1550)
Inscription: Vonn‡zoler‡ez‡Gebomne Grofin‡Wundebre Grofe Von Holienlod ez Von‡ Holienlo[.] Anno‡Domin[.] (the rest restored)

Entry From: Checklist III: Addenda Filed Under: Burlington, Collection of Peter Pellettieri, Connecticut

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