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Welcome Panel with a Couple, possibly Ulrich Gatty and Adelheid Joss

Anonymous, Swiss
16th century

Welcome Panel with a Couple, possibly Ulrich Gatty and Adelheid Joss

Red, rose, blue, and purple pot metal and uncolored glass enhanced with vitreous paint, silver stain, blue enamel and sanguine.
31.8 x 22.9 cm (12 1/2 x 9 inches)
AZ229
Provenance

Acquired by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York, and installed in his library 1907-1909.

Inscriptions/Markings

[Vl]rich Jacob Ga[...]ÿ Vnd ... / (Ad)elheid Jossin Sin E(hel)iche (Ulrich Jacob Ga[.]y and Adelheid Joss, his wife; the husband possibly named Gatty).

Summary

The couple stands in front of a string-decorated gold ground. At the bottom are blue, white and gold panels. To the left is the husband, dressed in armor holding a musket over his left shoulder while his right hand rests on the Swiss knife at his waist. Half armor over voluminous knee-length pants protect his thighs. He wears yellow stockings decorated with blue ribbons at the knee. On the right, his wife holds out a beaker in her right hand. She is dressed in a white bonnet and apron and a long green skirt. Her purse, a symbol of her responsibility for the household, is at her waist. The panel is framed by simple architecture and above the lintel a man drives a horse laden with goods before a herd of cows.The bottom of the panel holds the inscription.

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