Lot 310: [ MEDALS ]

JACQUES JONGHELINCK (1530-1606) Anne of Austria (1549-1580), silver-gilt medal (1570), ANNA AVSTRIAC PHILYPPI CATHOL, bust right, aged 21, in dress with high collar and double chain around neck; incised on truncation, ÆT 21, rev., FOELICITATI PATRIAE, a fruiting palm tree; date 1570 incised below, 20.73g, 39.5mm (Smolderen 73; Armand I, 240, 14; Bargello 408; Toderi/Vannel 1435), pierced and with mount removed from top edge, a very fine contemporary cast

Provenance: Sir Timothy Clifford collection, Christie's/Spink, 21 May 1996, lot 87; The Estate of John R. Gaines, Morton & Eden, 21 April 2005, lot 39. Anne of Austria is shown aged 21, in the year of her marriage to Philip II of Spain in 1570. She was his fourth wife and mother of the future Philip III, born in 1578. The medal was made to mark the queen's official visit to Antwerp on 26-31 August 1570.