Bronze Plaquette from Belgium of Health | Yale University Art Gallery

1913

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 136.4 g, 12:00
Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001
Accession Number: 2001.87.27003
Geography: Made in Belgium
Culture: Belgian
Period: 20th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: nude woman l. with back to viewer with fruits and snakes in hair trailing down outstretched arms toward nude child seated on wall resting l. elbow on statue of bearded man's head, hill in background with temple far r. on horizon, wall reads ASKLHPIOS in greek

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: SOCIETE / HOLLANDO-BELGE / DES AMIS / DE LA MEDAILLE / 1913 female frontal bust on pedestal reading YPEIA in greek center, fruits and snakes in hair trail down and form arc around head, three art nouveau swirls below l. and r.

Provenance

Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., by 2001; transferred to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2001

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

plaquettes

Marks

PAUL FISCH

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