Medal: Sultan Süleyman I, Northern Italian, ca. 1525
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1525
Medal in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession 1975.1.1249), catalogued by the museum's Robert Lehman Collection department under the title “Medal: Sultan Süleyman I”. The museum dates it ca. 1525 and records its origin as Northern Italian. The museum records the medium as Bronze (Reddish copper alloy with traces of a dark wax layer). and the dimensions as Diam. 12.8 cm, wt. 554.77 g.. Subject tags assigned by the museum: Men, Portraits, Profiles. These details are transcribed from the museum's open-access record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Bronze (Reddish copper alloy with traces of a dark wax layer).
- Dimensions
- Diam. 12.8 cm, wt. 554.77 g.
Technical characteristics
- Classification
- Medals
- Culture recorded
- Northern Italian
Identification
- Met object id
- 460947
- Museum object name
- Medal
- Museum object number
- 1975.1.1249
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm the wider type, maker and date against a specialist reference.