Two silver Renaissance medallions with portraits of Emperor Charles V - image-1
Two silver Renaissance medallions with portraits of Emperor Charles V - image-2
Two silver Renaissance medallions with portraits of Emperor Charles V - image-1Two silver Renaissance medallions with portraits of Emperor Charles V - image-2

Lot 25 Dα

Two silver Renaissance medallions with portraits of Emperor Charles V

Auction 1066 - overview Cologne
19.05.2016, 17:00 - Jewellery and Watches
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 2.232 € (incl. premium)
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Two silver Renaissance medallions with portraits of Emperor Charles V

1.) With a portrait of the Emperor in a beret to verso inscribed "CAROLUS" "V" and with artist's monogram, verso with a crucifix before a crowned double-headed eagle, inscribed "MISERERE MEI DEUS", below this the pillars of Hercules and the inscription "PLUS ULTRA", dated 1747. 2.) Triangular, with the Emperor in armour, inscribed "IMPERATOR CAROLUS MAXIMUS ROMANORUM" and with a bust of Alexader the Great to verso inscribed "ALEXANDER MAKEDO PHILIPPI REGIS FILIUS". Maker's mark "HR" monogram. 4.6 x 3.7 cm. Weight 20.2 g.
Hans Reinhart the Elder (Leipzig, ca. 1510 - 1581), 1547.

The Saxon medallion maker Hans Reinhart the Elder became a citizen of Leipzig in 1539 and master of the Leipzig goldsmith's guild in 1547.

Literature

Cf. Bekker, Europäische Plaketten und Medaillen 15. - 18. Jh., Bestandskatalog Grassi Museum, Leipzig, 1998, no. 378. Further examples in the Münzkabinett of the Dresden Kunstsammlungen and in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (inv. no. 2277-1855).