Image files are licensed Public Domain Mark 1.0. Hamburger Kunsthalle, ID4443. Photographs by Dana Zacharias. Medalist: Prof. Rudolph Mayer.

Mayer, Rudolph: Alexander the Great

around 1905

 

Hamburger Kunsthalle Nomisma NDP
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SKU-7/43 Neoclassicism & Reception of Antiquity

Inventory no

M-1997-335

Obverse

Staggered busts of Alexander III, cuirassed, wearing a crested helmet adorned with a griffin, and of Athena, wearing a crested helmet and with a Medusa’s head (gorgoneion) on her scale armour, left. A meander band runs along the rim.

Reverse

ALEX-ANDER / DER - GROSSE [deepened]. Eagle seating on a branch, left, winges folded. Below, at the rim the deepened signature R M.

SitterNDP

Alexandros III (336-323 BC), king of Macdon
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MedalistNDP

Rudolph Mayer
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Class/status

Private issue NDP

Date

around 1905
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Bronze Nomisma NDP; 29,90 g; 41 mm; 12 h

Production

struck nomisma NDP

Mint

Pforzheim Nomisma geonames NDP

Region

Baden NDP

Country

GermanyNomismageonames NDP

Item

Medal nomisma NDP

Department

Medals, 20th century to present

ProducerNDP

B. H. Mayer Kunstprägeanstalt
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Vendor (to prev. Owner)NDP

Galerie Commeter (Hamburg)
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Provenance

Rudolf Mayer (Nýdek 12.06.1846 - 24.06.1916 Karlsruhe), 20. Jhd. - ? (1); […] (2); Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, ? - 20.04.1906 (3); Ankauf von dort Further information

previous OwnerNDP

Wilhelm Ernst Schramm 1906 - 1915
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Object number

ID4443

 

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