Netherlands Plaquette 1914 Sietske Wienecke at the age of fifteen - By Wienecke PR

Netherlands / Belgium. Portrait plaquette of Sietske Wienecke at the age of fifteen, 1914. By Johannes Cornelis Wienecke.

Issued by the Nederlandsch-Belgische Vereeniging van de Vrienden der Medaille als Kunstwerk.

Obverse: portrait of the artist’s daughter facing left within a circular medallion, with wild roses in the four corners. Inscribed SIETSKE / Æ.15 / 1914. Signed J.C. Wienecke below the portrait.

Reverse: a medal press within a curved metal strip showing partially punched blanks, surrounded by the association’s name, the crowned arms of the Netherlands and Belgium, foliage and tools associated with medal production.

A personal portrait combined with an elaborate reverse celebrating the craft of medal making. An example of the same type is preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, inventory 1920-AG.

References: CJCW 124; Koninklijke Begeer I-1119; Buchet/Toussaint 37.
Weight: 66.1 g.
Size: 48 mm, square.

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