A Jousting Targe

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in a hallway glass case on the way to the Arms and Armor, there is a jousting targe something like this one:


Something like, yes; however, the one I mean goes by the nickname "cat. no. 69.169" and is painted with an owl grasping a branch while a ribbon unfurls itself in an arc overhead, proclaiming:

WIE.WOL.ICH.BIN.DER.VOGEL.HAS.NOCH.DEN.ERFRET.MICH.DAS

"Though I am hated by all birds, I nevertheless enjoy that."

That is one stone cold hoot owl.