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Auction: 8019 - Ancient, English, Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 231

Jaques Boiceau, Superintendent of the King´s Gardens under Louis XIII, 1630, cast bronze medal, bust of Boiceau right, wearing hign-collared fur-trimmed coat, dated 1630 below bust, rev. female figure of Agriculture standing in long and well ordered gardens, trees to left and right, a spade in her left hand, 47mm. (Jones II --), decorative suspension loop, very fine, rare Estimate £ 200-300 Jacques Boiceau wrote a treatise on gardening published in 1638 and he had an influence on the development of the garden in seventeenth century France. The commission of this medal seems likely to have derived from Boiceau´s friendship with the medallist Guillaume Dupré, to whose son Jacques he was godfather..

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