Austria, Friedrich III and Maximilian I, silver gilt portrait medal, 1531, by Utz (Ulrich) Gebhart, DIVI FRIDRICHVS 3 PAT ET MAXIMILIANVS FILI IMPER ROMANI, conjoined busts to right, Friedrich wearing a high banded hat or spangenkrone, Maximilian wearing hat, and collar and badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, rev. NOBILISS AC ILLVSTRISS DOMVS AVSTRIACAE INSIGNIA AN 1531, crowned arms supported by putti, 48mm. (Habich 1921; Lbbecke 449), traces of mount at 12 o'clock, the gilding rubbed on the high points, very fine

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Austria, Friedrich III and Maximilian I, silver gilt portrait medal, 1531, by Utz (Ulrich) Gebhart, DIVI FRIDRICHVS 3 PAT ET MAXIMILIANVS FILI IMPER ROMANI, conjoined busts to right, Friedrich wearing a high banded hat or spangenkrone, Maximilian wearing hat, and collar and badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, rev. NOBILISS AC ILLVSTRISS DOMVS AVSTRIACAE INSIGNIA AN 1531, crowned arms supported by putti, 48mm. (Habich 1921; Lbbecke 449), traces of mount at 12 o'clock, the gilding rubbed on the high points, very fine

Provenance

Rothschild inv. no. LR144.

Lot Essay

Gebhart has signed this medal with his personal mark, a cross over a crescent, at the end of the obverse legend. There was a bronze example in the Erbstein collection (lot 89). There were lead casts, of the obverse only, in the Tross collection (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Trusted 76), and the Merzbacher collection (lot 236).

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