Live Auction 6451Works of Art from the Collection of the late Lord Forte & An Interior by Francoise de Pfyffer
A SWISS POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT WALNUT ARMORIAL PLAQUE
Lot 218

A SWISS POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT WALNUT ARMORIAL PLAQUE

19TH CENTURY

Closed12 July 2012

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GBP 1,250

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A SWISS POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT WALNUT ARMORIAL PLAQUE
19TH CENTURY
The central cartouche dated 1675 above two coats-of-arms flanked by two pierced, scrolling panels each centred by a putto's mask, paper label to the reverse indistinctly inscribed in ink '905 Jost Bernhard Pfyffer ... altishofen Ma... Claro Mariensee? Drodmer? des Hierom ... Claro m. der... Pfyffer.'
19 in. (48 cm.) high; 42½ in. (108 cm.) wide

Specialist note

The arms depicted on the left are probably either those of Ludwig (d.1686) or Franz Pfyffer von Altishofen (d. 1696).