medal
- Museum number
- G3,FrM.102
- Description
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Cast silver medal. (whole)
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Bust of Henri IV, right, in armour and wearing a sash. (obverse)
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Bust of Marie de Medici, left. (reverse)
- Production date
- 18thC (cast)
- Dimensions
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Thickness: 1.50 - 4.70 millimetres
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Diameter: 46.000 millimetres
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Weight: 28.36 grammes
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- Curator's comments
- Jones 1
This is a poor, probably eighteenth-century cast. The obverse and reverse do not belong with each other, although they are also found united in an example in the Madrid collection. The reverse, which is signed with the monogram GDP, for G. Dupré, belongs with an obverse bearing a left-facing bust of Henri and signed with the same monogram (see 2).
Other examples:
(a) Museo Arquéologico, Madrid, bronze, 44 mm with loop for suspension.
(b) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, bronze. Uniface aftercast of the obverse, from a pierced example. From the Tradescant Collection (1656).
Bibliography:
1. T.N. Méd. Fr. I pl. 31 no. 2 (obverse) and II pl. 2 no. 4 (reverse).
2. Mazerolle II, no. 231 (obverse) and no. 631 (reverse).
3. Kunstmedaillen A. Reichmann & Co, Halle, no. 632 (bronze, 43 mm).
4. F. Alvarez-Ossorio Catalogo de las Medallas de los siglos XV, y XVI pp. 138-139, no. 318.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1825
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- G3,FrM.102
- C&M catalogue number
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MF2 (Jones 2) (56) (13)
