Box for a Medal on Johan Wolfert van Brederode, Field Marshal of the Netherlands, with Two Pasted-In Poems
Also known as: Doos voor een penning op Johan Wolfert van Brederode, veldmaarschalk der Nederlanden, met twee ingeplakte gedichten
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
in or after 1657
Turned boxwood box with lid, both provided on the inside with a printed poem, on the box "Onsterffelijcke Faem" and on the lid "Sprekende Swyns Hooft". The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-2-1187; its record gives material recorded as boxwood, paper; technique turning; measurements diameter 8 cm x thickness 2 cm x weight 28.09 g.
Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- boxwood, paper
- Technique
- turning
- Measurements
- diameter 8 cm x thickness 2 cm x weight 28.09 g
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 8 cm x thickness 2 cm x weight 28.09 g
Identification
- Original title
- Doos voor een penning op Johan Wolfert van Brederode, veldmaarschalk der Nederlanden, met twee ingeplakte gedichten
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- KOG-MP-2-1187
- Museum classification
- history medal
Catalogue references
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Research required
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