Past Exhibition

Marriage and Prosperity

Silver medal depicting a seated couple bathed in sunlight, wearing fanciful classical dress and joined together by a chain from which hangs a heart, trample three serpents underfoot; in the background, a grapevine trained on two posts, and a flowering plant
Silver medal depicting prosperity personified, seated and wearing a loose gown and fruited crown, holding in one hand a tazza bearing a pomegranate and an almond branch in the other; before her is a cornucopia with a bird perched on its tip and behind, an aloe plant

Attributed to Pieter van Abeele (1608–1684)
Marriage and Prosperity, ca. 1655
Silver, two cast shells soldered together
Diam.: 3 in. (7.65 cm)
Scher Collection

Cat. 85