Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 14th December 2021
Lot 74
Abbess Jacqueline de Lalaing of Flines Abbey: a fine 16th century French engraved silver medal
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £1000
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Description
Abbess Jacqueline de Lalaing of Flines Abbey: a fine 16th century French engraved silver medal, 55 mm, the Abbess, kneeling in the presence of the Holy Family, receives a rosary from the Infant Christ, Dame Jacqueline's motto to a banner: 'O MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI'; rev. the Sacred Heart and the Wounds of Christ above a banner inscribed 'DAME JACQUELINE DE LALAING 1536' and overlaid by a crosier and the Lalaing arms; unsigned, small integral suspension loop, good very fine or better; together with: Édouard Hautcoeur, 'Histoire De L'Abbaye De Flines', a modern hardcover facsimile of an 1874 edition. [2]
Flines Abbey was a Cistercian nunnery near Douai, founded in the first half of the 13th century. Dame Jacqueline, of the noble Lalaing Family of Flanders, was Abbess from the mid-1530s.