Medal. Hamburg, Free and Hanseatic City. AR Medal, Peace of Westphalia, by Dadler, 1651

Germany, Hamburg, Free and Hanseatic City. AR Medal, ”Gluckhennenmedaille”, For The Peace Of Westphalia, by S. Dadler. Struck, 1651. Obv: Chicken sitting with her chicks under a tree, between olive trees, UNSER FEIGENBAUM UND REBEN WIRD NUN SICHERN SCHATTEN GEBen. Rev: Justice left with sword, scales, and palm branch, Diligence right with beehive, both beside an altar with open Bible with inscription VERBUM / DOMINUM / MAN ET IN / AETER NUM ("God's Word Remains for Eternity”), all below radiant Jehovah (in Hebrew), GOTT GIB FRIED IN DEINEM LAND ERHALT LEHR WEHR UND NEHR STAND, 45mm, 33.3g, some contact marks and edge knocks, some patches of surface tarnish

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Provenance: Patricia Milne-Henderson (1935-2018), art historian.

Sebastian Dadler, 1586-1657, was one of the foremost medallists of the seventeenth century. Born in Strasbourg in 1586 and resided in Augsburg c.1619, Dresden c.1621-30, later in Nuremberg, Berlin and chiefly in Hamburg where he died in 1657. In Augsburg he was appointed first Goldsmith to the Imperial and Electoral Saxon Court, there he gained recognition as a Medallist and Chaser in gold and silver. When residing in Dresden he was appointed Medallist and Goldsmith to the Ducal Court of Saxony. Because of his international reputation, amongst many other princely houses of Europe Dadler held positions for the House of Orange and the Court of Sweden.