Germany
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Bibliography: Unpublished.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: VonnzolerezGebomne GrofinWundebre Grofe Von Holienlod ez Von Holienlo[.] AnnoDomin[.] (the rest restored)