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Arms of Jacob Iuppli with the Virgin and Child on the Crescent Moon

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Anonymous, Swiss
16th century

Arms of Jacob Iuppli with the Virgin and Child on the Crescent Moon

Red flashed and abraded pot metal and blue, light green, rose, red, and uncolored glass. Vitreous paint, silver stain and blue and green enamel defines the imagery.
12 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
AZ236
Provenance

Acquired by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York, and installed in his library 1907-9.

Inscriptions/Markings

F.[rater] Jacob Iuppli Custos / Jm wyrdige Gotzhus / St. Gallen 15... (F: Jacob Iuppli [Jakob Juppli] Custodian in the worthy place of worship/church St. ... (Gallen?)

Summary

The panel is dominated by an image of the Virgin of the Apocalypse. She is crowned and holds a scepter in her right hand. She cradles her child in her left arm. She stands on a crescent moon and is surrounded by rays of the sun with stars over her head. At the sides are saints; to the left appear Catherine and James Major and to the right Barbara and Rocco. At the top, above the arch to the right is John the Baptist preaching. To the left St. Gall is kneeling before his walking stick (the glass painter turned this stick into a cross) on which hangs his sack with relics. According to the legend the stick is on the place where Gallus met the bear. Below the image of the Virgin is a shield with the letters F. I. I. To the right the donor kneels, praying from a text he holds in his raised hands as he contemplates the vision.

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