Lot 24: Hans Zehnder , Bern 1555 - 1635 the stimmer arms with fortuna Pen and black ink and gray and pink wash; horizontal crease; signed with monogram and dated in black ink, lower right: HZ / 1580 ; bears initials, lower center: HZ

Pen and black ink and gray and pink wash; horizontal crease; signed with monogram and dated in black ink, lower right: HZ / 1580 ; bears initials, lower center: HZ

measurements note 380 by 327 mm

R. Hasler, Die Scheibenriss-Sammlung Wyss, 2 vols., Bern 1997, vol. II, p. 161, fig. 541.1

With P. Ganz, Basel, from whom purchased, August 1921

The composition of this large design is unusual, with the Stimmer arms to the right and the figure of Fortuna to the left above a cartouche flanked with putti, dogs and rabbits. It is, however, repeated, though without the inclusion of the specific coat of arms, in a signed and dated drawing of 1597 by Hans Caspar Lang, in the Wyss Collection (fig.1).υ1 Lang has however added the narrative scenes at the top of the composition that are typical of glass designs of the period, but are absent in the present work. Another drawing, by Christoph Murer, dated 1583 and in Schaffhausen, is a further variant of the composition, which probably derives in all three cases from an earlier prototype by Stimmer or one of the artists in his immediate circle. 1. Hasler, loc.cit.