Medal box
Also titled Penningdoos
Johan Werner Gericke (Hildesheim, 1746–1801)
1784
- Medium
- gold (metal), diamond (mineral)
- Classification
- medal box
- Dimensions
- diameter 8.9 cm x height 2.2 cm x weight 257 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Stichting Dr Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds, the Scato Gockinga Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds, the Johan Huizinga Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and M. Witteveen
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
With the conclusion of the peace treaty of 1784, the French vice-admiral Pierre André de Suffren de Saint-Tropez was honoured as a ‘hero’ by France and the Netherlands. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) presented him with this box containing a gold medal for having prevented the Dutch colonies in Africa and Asia from falling into British hands.
