Medal of Sea and Flowers Artist: Christiaan Johannes van der Hoef (Dutch, 1875–1933)

20th century

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

123.03 g, 12:00, 65 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Dr. William Gilman Thompson, Ph.B. 1877

Accession Number

2001.87.29883

Geography

Made in The Netherlands

Culture

Dutch

Period

20th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: VAN DE ZEE HET ONMEET LIJK GEWEMEL seminude woman center holding shel above head, wreath behind, scrolled vines beneath, feathered waves surround, square flowers bottom around edge and between words of inscription

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: HET BLOEIENDE WIJDE LAND / NEDERLANDSCH BELGISCHE VER / VAN VRIENDEN VAN DE MEDAILLE five women crowned with flowers whose bodies are petals of flower beginning to bloom, center, fields of tulips behind forming horizontal bands, flowers between words of inscription
Provenance
Dr. WIlliam GIlman Thompson, to about 1928; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., about 1928; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1928–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Object/Work type

botanical, medals

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