SILVER CONFETTI
Original price
£500.00
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Original price
£500.00
Original price
£500.00
£500.00
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£500.00
Current price
£500.00
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[Henriette Marie de Bourbon, princess of France and Charles I, British king, Paris wedding]: Silver medal by Pierre Magnier struck to celebrate the couple’s wedding at the cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, 1/11 May 1625. Busts of bride and groom facing with celestial rays above and motto CH[arolus] MAG[nus] ET HEN[rietta] MA[ria] BRIT[anniae] REX ET REG[ina] (Charles the great and Henriette Marie, king and queen of Britain). To other side, Cupid holding roses (of England) and lilies (of France), motto FUNDIT AMOR LILIA MIXTA ROSIS (love pours forth lilies mixed with roses) and date 1625.
A wonderful piece of silver ephemera, a medal that was inspected and found to carry the same imagery and motto as ours was reported by an attendee as “flung about” at the royal wedding in Paris between princess Henriette Marie, daughter of Henri IV of France, and king Charles I in May 1625 (Mead).
Details
Silver medal, diameter 23 mm., darkened and scratched.
Canova-Green, Marie-Claude, ‘Love, politics and religion, Henrietta Maria’s progress through France and the entry into Amiens’, in Canova-Green and Wolfson, Sara J., eds., The wedding of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, 1625, celebrations and controversy (Turnhout, 2020), 105-129.
Urban, Sylvanus, gent., The Gentleman’s Magazine: And Historical Chronicle. From July to December, 1821. Volume XCI. (Being the Fourteenth of a New Series). Part the Second. (London, 1821).