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A Russian carved ivory commemorative medal

Auction 1151 - overview Cologne
28.05.2020, 17:00 - Jewellery & Boxes
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 1.500 € (incl. premium)

A Russian carved ivory commemorative medal

Carved ivory tondo with a relief portrait of the Russian Count Fyodor Matveyevich Apraksin. Signed on the reverse "GOUIN F 1709". Diameter 6 cm.With case.
Salomon Gouin, 1709.

This medal commemorates the victory of the famous Russian Admiral Count Fyodor Matveyevich Apraksin (Moscow 1661 – 1728) in the great Northern War in 1708. He was able to beat the Swedish fleet at Ingermanland with the help of a ruse.
The medal engraver Gouin was born in the Netherlands but worked as a coin maker under Tzar Peter the Great. The British Museum houses two similar medallions by the artist.