During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was the custom among the well-to-do to give a medal to the guests on the occasion of family celebrations such as marriage, birth, baptism or birthday. The Monnaie de Paris had several occasional medals in stock, engraved by well-known French medallists, from which to choose. This wedding medal, designed by Louis Bottée, shows the inauguration of the marriage on the obverse and a blank cartouche on the reverse on which a custom text could be engraved.
| Artist |
Alexandre Louis Bottée
RKD
Wikidata
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Monnaie de Paris
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| Title | Marriage Medal |
| Period |
19th century
20th century |
| Location |
France
TGN
Paris TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | inscription and signature below: BÉNÉDICTION / NUPTIALE ; LOVIS BOTTÉE |
| inscription at the back, top: CELEBRATION DE MARIAGE | |
| Collection | medals AAT |
| Inventory number | 1909-O |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Godard, A. Paris 1909 |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1909-O |
| IIIF Manifest |
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7619/manifest.json
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7620/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11P3121
priest (Roman Catholic)
Iconclass
11Q7141 altars (religious fixtures) Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 42D3 marriage, married couple, 'matrimonium' Iconclass |
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