Teyler's Second Society, medal awarded to Pieter Kikkert
Also known as: Teyler's Tweede Genootschap, penning toegekend aan Pieter Kikkert
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1769 - 1807
Silver medal. Obverse: five women, illuminated by an all-seeing eye in a radiant triangle, representing from left to right: seated History with several books, Poetry with a lyre, Physics with a globe and pair of compasses, Drawing with a palette, brush, and mask, and seated Numismatics with a tray on her lap and a medal in her hand within a circular legend; exergue: inscription.
Reverse: inscription within a laurel wreath and circular legend. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-3166; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 7.3 cm x weight 1756 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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- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal)
- Technique
- striking (metalworking)
- Measurements
- diameter 7.3 cm x weight 1756 g
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 7.3 cm x weight 1756 g
Design
- Obverse
- five women, illuminated by an all-seeing eye in a radiant triangle, representing from left to right: seated History with several books, Poetry with a lyre, Physics with a globe and pair of compasses, Drawing with a palette, brush, and mask, and seated Numismatics with a tray on her lap and a medal in her hand within a circular legend; exergue: inscription.
- Reverse
- inscription within a laurel wreath and circular legend.
Identification
- Original title
- Teyler's Tweede Genootschap, penning toegekend aan Pieter Kikkert
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-VG-1-3166
- Museum classification
- copy · award medal
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
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