Past Exhibition

Silver Wedding of Johannis de Waal and Gerbreghie Valkes

Silver medal depicting, in the foreground, a rooster with hen and chicks beside a scythe and agricultural tools (including a spade and plow), behind which appears Cupid with arrows, which represent the seven provinces of the Netherlands and a lion of Holland looking at a couple (seated on a cart) who, hands clasped, face one another while stepping on a skull; in the middle ground, a man works the field before a chapel, outside which a mother and two children, as well as a figure with a cross and Bible, sit;
Silver medal with a Dutch inscription and a flowering vine

After Wouter Muller (1604–1673), probably by Cornelis Coutrier (before 1730–1749)
Silver Wedding of Johannis de Waal and Gerbreghie Valkes (dates unknown), dated 1718
Silver, two cast shells soldered together
Diam.: 2 11/16 in. (6.9 cm)
Scher Collection

Cat. 82