Lot 118
118
Spanish Netherlands, Margaret of Austria, duchess of Parma (1522-1586), struck silver medal, undated (1567), after Jaques Jonghelinck, MARGARETA DE AVSTRIA DP ET P GERMANIAE INFERIORIS GVB, bust to right, wearing veiled headdress, gown with puffed sleeves, and necklace with pendant cross, rev. FAVENTE DEO, an allegorical female standing on a rock, buffeted by waves and wind, holding a sword in her right hand, palm and olive branches in her left, buildings to her right, in the distance a boat entering a harbour, 58mm. (cf.Arm.II, p.211 no.40; cf. van Loon I, pp.87-88; Sim. pp.58-60; and pl.VIII, vol.1; Smolderen 1996, p.288-289), an attractive struck piece on a thick silver flan, 88.05g., signs of double-striking on the reverse, extremely fine, rare
Spanish Netherlands, Margaret of Austria, duchess of Parma (1522-1586), struck silver medal, undated (1567), after Jaques Jonghelinck, MARGARETA DE AVSTRIA DP ET P GERMANIAE INFERIORIS GVB, bust to right, wearing veiled headdress, gown with puffed sleeves, and necklace with pendant cross, rev. FAVENTE DEO, an allegorical female standing on a rock, buffeted by waves and wind, holding a sword in her right hand, palm and olive branches in her left, buildings to her right, in the distance a boat entering a harbour, 58mm. (cf.Arm.II, p.211 no.40; cf. van Loon I, pp.87-88; Sim. pp.58-60; and pl.VIII, vol.1; Smolderen 1996, p.288-289), an attractive struck piece on a thick silver flan, 88.05g., signs of double-striking on the reverse, extremely fine, rare

Details
Spanish Netherlands, Margaret of Austria, duchess of Parma (1522-1586), struck silver medal, undated (1567), after Jaques Jonghelinck, MARGARETA DE AVSTRIA DP ET P GERMANIAE INFERIORIS GVB, bust to right, wearing veiled headdress, gown with puffed sleeves, and necklace with pendant cross, rev. FAVENTE DEO, an allegorical female standing on a rock, buffeted by waves and wind, holding a sword in her right hand, palm and olive branches in her left, buildings to her right, in the distance a boat entering a harbour, 58mm. (cf.Arm.II, p.211 no.40; cf. van Loon I, pp.87-88; Sim. pp.58-60; and pl.VIII, vol.1; Smolderen 1996, p.288-289), an attractive struck piece on a thick silver flan, 88.05g., signs of double-striking on the reverse, extremely fine, rare
Provenance
Rothschild inv. no. LR30.

Lot Essay

Margaret, the illegitimate daughter of the Emperor Charles V, married Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma. She was Governor General of the Low Countries (1559-1567), and was succeeded by the duke of Alba. Although she should have resumed her duties on 1580, she found she could not work alongside her own son, the unpopular Alessandro Farnese, who was by that time in charge of military operations against the Dutch provinces.

There are numerous small differences between this later struck medal and the original cast version by Jonghelinck. The heavy silver medals in the Cabinet des Mdailles, Bruxelles (73.6g.), and the Rijksmuseum Het Koninklijt Penningkabinet, Leiden (106.5g.) are from the same dies as this piece, although on both of the museum examples Margaret's age (45) and the date (1567) have been added.

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