Curator's Description
Circular medallion (template for medal); boxwood; Goedart van den Wier in profile to right; inscribed.
This object was collected by Anselm von Rothschild and bequeathed to the British Museum by Ferdinand Anselm Rothschild.
Made In
Cologne
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Netherlands
Lower Rhine or Netherlands
Maker
What is it?
Made Of
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Subjects
How big is it?
9.2 cm wide, 9.2 cm high, 1.5 cm deep, and it weighs 66g
Detailed Curatorial Notes
Provenance: Baron Anselm von Rothschild, Vienna, by 1866 (cat. no. 60).
Commentary: Read 1902 suggests that this may be one of the medals executed by Friedrich Hagenauer of Augsburg during his stay in Cologne, 1537-1546, but it is attributed to a Low German or Netherlandish woodcarver of 1542 in Habich 1929-34.
Bibliography
- Charles Hercules Read, 'The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898', London, 1902, no. 244, pl. L
- O.M. Dalton, 'The Waddesdon Bequest', 2nd edn (rev), British Museum, London, 1927, no.244
- Georg Habich, Die Deutschen Schaumünzen des XVI Jahrhunderts, F Bruckmann, 1929-1935, Vol. I, I no. 742.
- Read 1902: Read, Charles Hercules, The Waddesdon Bequest. Catalogue of the Works of Art Bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898, London, BMP, 1902
- Dalton 1927: Dalton, Ormonde Maddock, The Waddesdon Bequest : jewels, plate, and other works of art bequeathed by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild., London, BMP, 1927
- Habich: Habich