Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Frederick V (1596-1632), Count Palatine, Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) of Bohemia and their son Prince Henry Frederick (1614-1629), oval tin or pewter (or perhaps base silver) portrait medal by Simon de Passe, circa 1616, signed SP (in reversed monogram), busts of the Count, his wife the Princess and the infant Prince, all with lace collars, the Prince with lace bonnet, she with jewels in hair and with necklace, rev., two shields supported by lions, helm and two-tailed lion crest above, motto below SVPERATA TELLVS SYDERA Donat, legend around, EFFIG ILLUST PR FREDERICI DG CO PAL ET ELIZABETHÆ PO PR IAC MAG BRITT REG FILLIA, VNA CVM SERO PR FERDERICO EORU FIL PRIMOGENIto, 63.5 x 51 mm (MI 218/69; Stemper 161; Exter II, 368, 102u). Very fine or nearly so, flan a little uneven and marked.

See footnote to previous lot. Another example was sold in Münz Zentrum Auction XXXV, 19 April, 1979 (lot 2259)

Provenance: Glendining Auction, 3 October, 2002 (lot 1080); Ex Greta S. Heckett Collection, Sotheby's auction, 25 May, 1977 (lot 56).