Title: Antique Medallic Bronze Commemorative New Jersey Paperweight
Shipping: $19.00
Artist: N/A
Period: 20th Century
History: N/A
Origin: North America > United States
Condition: Excellent
Item Date: 1846 to 1946
Item ID: 4595
1846 to 1946 100th Anniversary american insurance group newark new jersey Antique Commemorative Art medal Bronze Paperweight. Items sold are often of considerable age and will exhibit wear, usage and damage often NOT LISTED IN THE DESCRIPTION. The absence of condition remarks in the description DOES NOT mean the item is in perfect condition. Customer satisfaction is very important to me. I photograph each piece very well and note any major damages or significant wear. Most items I sell have gone through some kind of use over time. A goal of the site is to faciliate the creation of a fully searchable database of art and historical works of art for the benefit of collectors, artists and historians. You can see all of the content of this site without logging in. However, we encourage you to register so that you can create photo albums and upload photos from your collection to share with others.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_medals
Art medals 0r commemorative Art Medals, are a well-known and highly collected form of small bronze sculpture, and are considered a form of exonumia.
Art medals have been produced since the late Renaissance period, and the category was basically invented by Pisanello, who cast them like bronze sculptures, rather than minting them like coins.
Art medals may take such recognized forms as competition "medals" or "awards" for various accomplishments, but are more typically recognized by: (1) their memorialization of a particular place, event, or person (say, portrait medals of Cesare Borgia); (2) the casting process that produced the medal; and (3) the hand of an individual artist at work.
