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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 518
Inscription: [1] (around coat of arms, woven in silk thread) HONY SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE ("Dishonored be he that thinks ill of it"); [2] (below shield, on ribbon, woven in silk thread) IE MAINTIENDRAY ("I will maintain"; motto of the House of Orange)Marking: [1] (below, on outer border) B (shield) B, tan letters and red shield (mark of the city of Brussels); [2] (on lower right hand edge) LE CLERC, in tan.
Commissioned for William III (William of Orange) ; [ French and Co., New York , 1933; sold to MMA ]
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