Lot 309: [ MEDALS ]

JACQUES JONGHELINCK (1530-1606) Viglius van Aytta de Zuichem (1507-1577), lawyer and statesman, silver medal, 1568, as provost of St. Bavo, president of the Privy Council and chancellor of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 1568, VIGLIVS PRAEP S BAV PRAES SECR CONS R MA ET CANC ORD AV VEL, bust right, aged 62, wearing coat with fur collar and cap with flaps; inscribed below, AET LXII 1568, rev., VITA MORTALIVM VIGILIA, the arms of Ghent quartered with those of Aytta de Zuichem, 32.56g, 53.6mm (Smolderen 65, this piece listed; van Loon I, 54, 2; Scher, Proud Republic, 7), minor marks, in slightly base silver, an extremely fine contemporary cast

Provenance: 'Property of a late Collector', Sotheby's, 12 June 1974, lot 291; Cyril Humphris, London, 'European Medallions', no. 80.