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Box for the Storage of Medals

French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899

Bearing the royal coat of arms, this box for medals may resemble the two examples the Dutch diplomat Cornelis Hop received following his farewell audience at Fontainebleau in November 1725. Rather than silver medals of the French kings, as included here, the king gave Hop a collection of commemorative gold medals as well as a diamond-mounted gold snuffbox with miniature portraits of Louis XV and his wife, Marie Leszczýnska, inside the lid.

Box for the Storage of Medals, Oak; gold-embossed red morocco leather; silk; with sixty-five silver medals of the French kings, French

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Box for the Storage of Medals, Oak; gold-embossed red morocco leather; silk; with sixty-five silver medals of the French kings, French
Box for the Storage of Medals, Oak; gold-embossed red morocco leather; silk; with sixty-five silver medals of the French kings, French

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