Zaanland Municipalities Division of the Hollandsche Maatschappij van Landbouw, medal awarded as first prize to P.H. van Gelder for the thirty most beautiful flowering plants
Also known as: Afdeling Zaanlandse gemeenten van de Hollandsche Maatschappij van Landbouw, penning als eerste prijs uitgereikt aan P.H. van Gelder voor de dertig fraaiste planten in bloei
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1853
Silver medal. Obverse: crowned coat of arms resting on two sheaves of corn, two overturned, filled cornucopias, an oak branch and a willow branch above inscription and agricultural implements.
Reverse: wreath of olive branches with ribbon above inscriptions. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-NM-12262-B; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking), engraving; measurements diameter 3.8 cm x weight 26.66 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.
Evidence at a glance
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal)
- Technique
- striking (metalworking), engraving
- Measurements
- diameter 3.8 cm x weight 26.66 g
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 3.8 cm x weight 26.66 g
Design
- Obverse
- crowned coat of arms resting on two sheaves of corn, two overturned, filled cornucopias, an oak branch and a willow branch above inscription and agricultural implements.
- Reverse
- wreath of olive branches with ribbon above inscriptions.
Identification
- Original title
- Afdeling Zaanlandse gemeenten van de Hollandsche Maatschappij van Landbouw, penning als eerste prijs uitgereikt aan P.H. van Gelder voor de dertig fraaiste planten in bloei
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-NM-12262-B
- Museum classification
- award medal
Catalogue references
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Research required
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