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Description A Netherlandish silver wedding medal
probably Amsterdam
early 17th century
lozenge-shaped, engraved or cast to simulate engraving with the courtly pair,?their hands clasped, their hearts joined and bound by a locked chain with Death holding the key within rhyming inscription, the reverse inscribed in rhyming couplets within overlapping leaf border, including the?Pelican in Her Piety and clasped hands, pierced for hanging
6cm. wide
64gr, 2oz
Condition Report Pierced through for hanging, otherwise light wear and nicks, general condition excellent. Later case scuffed. The rhyming inscription around the image of the couple is: HOVT DAER IONCFROU DIE ICK BEMIN EN ANDERS GEEN*DAER IS MYN TROU MYN HERT EN SIN NAEST GODT ALLEEN The verse couplets read: DAER T'EEN IN T'ANDER HERT DOOR LIEFD GESLOTEN WERT SIETMEN VEEL VREUCHDE SPRUYTEN DRUCK ANGST NOCH LYDEN GROOT NIET ANDERS DAN DE DOOT CAN T'SELFDEN WEER ONSLUYTEN
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Provenance Possibly Sir Ernest Cassel (1852-1921)
Notes For closely comparable Lozenge shaped wedding medals see: J.W Frederiks,
Dutch Silver, wrought plate of North and South-Holland..., the Hague, 1958
Fredericks (pp. 42 and 51 and plates 147-149) describes and illustrates three such medals, all with variations, but essentially almost identical to each other and the present example. These are in the Rijksmuseum or the Dutch Royal Cabinet of Coins.? Fredericks ascribes these works to the monogrammist AB. He compares this AB master with Abraham van Hecken and concludes that they may have been the same person. The monogrammist AB was certainly working in Amsterdam, he states,? while van Hecken was probably born in Antwerp, worked in Frankenthal, a haven from? persecution for southern Netherlandish refugees and established himself in Amsterdam by about 1608.