LARGE PAINTING, GERMANY, CIRCA 1680 - Lot 99

LARGE PAINTING, GERMANY, CIRCA 1680 EMBOSSED AND ENGRAVED SILVER, upper part in brace, composed of a plate inserted in the center representing the Nativity surrounded by a kneeling couple in high-relief appliqué figures, hands joined, and seven polychrome enameled medallions bearing coats of arms, background decorated with vermiculures and a fleur-de-lys semis. City hallmark with pinecone and PW master goldsmith's hallmark. Nativity plaque: Augsburg, MO Peter Winter (1651-1702) H: 34.6 x W: 37.6 cm Nativity plate: H: 19.3 x W: 15.3 cm Gross weight: 1kg 200 In a 19th-century frame with old labels on the reverse (one medallion slightly missing) Provenance: Belgian aristocratic private collection Identification of the coats of arms, from left to right and top to bottom : - Nikolaus Wierith (1634-1691), Abbot of Machtal from 1661 to his death. Paly of four Argent and Gules, a quarter Azure charged with a mullet Or. - Josef Krutter (circa 1650-1717), Swiss notary and bailiff of Flumenthal Saltire, 1 azure a crescent rising Or, 2 barred argent and sable of four. - Cistercian Abbey of Wettingen (dedicated to the Virgin Mary) and Kaspar Bürgisser, abbot between 1765 and 1768. Argent, a two-tailed mermaid proper, on a chief gules a mullet of six points Or. Gules, a chevron between three azure flowers slipped and leaved vert. - Johann Hugo von Orsbeck (1634-1711), Archbishop and Prince-Elector of Trier from 1676 to his death. Quarterly: 1st Argent, a cross Gules; 2nd Gules, a lamb vexilliferous proper; 3rd Gules, a tower masoned and embattled Argent, ensigned by a coronet Or and pierced by an episcopal crozier Or; 4th Azure, a cross Argent; overall Or, a saltire Gules cantoned by four water lily leaves Vert. - Alliance between the Swiss families Vogelsang (canton of Thurgau) and Hügli (canton of Bern) Or, a bull's head gules, accornée and ringed argent, surmounted by a rose gules barbed vert and seeded argent. Azure, a crescent Or rising on a mount of three cups Vert, charged with a three-leaved sprig Argent, all between two mullets Or of six points, one on each side of the crescent. - Swiss Brunner family (canton of Thurgau) Azure, a columnar fountain Argent rising from a hexagonal basin, the column ensigned by a fleur-de-lis Argent, and discharging its waters through two horizontal pipes to the dexter and sinister. - Franz Adam Freiherr von Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg (1656-1737), Grand Marshal of the Episcopal Principality of Augsburg, raised to the rank of Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1698. Quarterly: 1st and 4th Gules, a chevron Argent, charged with a lark proper; 2nd and 3rd Argent, a mound of three cups Vert, each cup ensigned by a flame Gules; overall, a bar Argent and Gules.