CRAWFORD (Brit.). A Glasgow Die-sinker of the early part of the nineteenth century. His signature appears on a medal of the Corporation of Glasgow, undated, with armorial bearings of the City on Obv. and a seated figure of Justice on R. Bibliography. — Cochran-Patrick, op. cit.
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
CLODION
CLODION otherwise CLAUDE MICHEL (French). Sculptor, born at Nancy in 1738, died at Paris in 1814. He excelled in the light and graceful style and produced some charming Plaques and Bas-reliefs. His figures of young girls playing with birds are master-pieces of taste and ingenuity. I lately saw a pair of long oblong Plaquettes, probably by this artist, representing children playing shuttlecock and skipping (size 85x31 mill.; Rome Sale Cat., lot 339, 26. February 1904; realized ?. 12.10.0). —Among...
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CLODION otherwise CLAUDE MICHEL (French). Sculptor, born at Nancy in 1738, died at Paris in 1814. He excelled in the light and graceful style and produced some charming Plaques and Bas-reliefs. His figures of young girls playing with birds are master-pieces of taste and ingenuity. I lately saw a pair of long oblong Plaquettes, probably by this artist, representing children playing shuttlecock and skipping (size 85x31 mill.; Rome Sale Cat., lot 339, 26. February 1904; realized ?. 12.10.0). —Among...
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CLOT, JOHANNES
CLOT, JOHANNES (Germ.). Medallist, and Engraver at the Mint of Genoa, in the early part of the sixteenth century. His monogram I. C. appears on a medal of Marguerite de Foix, second wife of Luigi II., Marquis of Saluzzo, struck in 1516. This piece bears on obv. the bust of the Princess, and on R. the legend DEVS. PROTECTOR . ET . REFVGIVM . MEVM . I . I . C. This engraver is no doubt also the author of the Ten-Zecchini piece, illustrated and described below. Obv. + LUDOVICVS.MARCHIO.ET. MARGARIT...
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CLOT, JOHANNES (Germ.). Medallist, and Engraver at the Mint of Genoa, in the early part of the sixteenth century. His monogram I. C. appears on a medal of Marguerite de Foix, second wife of Luigi II., Marquis of Saluzzo, struck in 1516. This piece bears on obv. the bust of the Princess, and on R. the legend DEVS. PROTECTOR . ET . REFVGIVM . MEVM . I . I . C. This engraver is no doubt also the author of the Ten-Zecchini piece, illustrated and described below. Obv. + LUDOVICVS.MARCHIO.ET. MARGARIT...
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CNEIUS
CNEIUS or GNAIOS (Greek). There are some authentic gems engraved by this artist : thus an intaglio in aqua-marine representing the head of Herakles, with the signature ?NAIOC (Orsini Collection, now in the British Museum), and two other gems, — considered genuine by Furtwaengler, — only known by two pastes, one in the Berlin Cabinet, The Rape of the Palladium, and the other, in the Marlborough Collection (now dispersed), Standing Athlete, a copy of the statue by some artist of the school of Poly...
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CNEIUS or GNAIOS (Greek). There are some authentic gems engraved by this artist : thus an intaglio in aqua-marine representing the head of Herakles, with the signature ?NAIOC (Orsini Collection, now in the British Museum), and two other gems, — considered genuine by Furtwaengler, — only known by two pastes, one in the Berlin Cabinet, The Rape of the Palladium, and the other, in the Marlborough Collection (now dispersed), Standing Athlete, a copy of the statue by some artist of the school of Poly...
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CODORÉ
CODORÉ or COLDORÉ, OLIVIER (French). A distinguished Gemengraver, who enjoyed the patronage of Henry IV. and-Louis XIII. Most of the camei and intagli of the Cabinet des Médailles at Paris, which were engraved by order of the King at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries are works of Codoré, J. de Fontenay, and G. Dupré. It is difficult, and probably impossible, to fix the work of each of these artists separately, but among Codoré's productions are the following : A...
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CODORÉ or COLDORÉ, OLIVIER (French). A distinguished Gemengraver, who enjoyed the patronage of Henry IV. and-Louis XIII. Most of the camei and intagli of the Cabinet des Médailles at Paris, which were engraved by order of the King at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries are works of Codoré, J. de Fontenay, and G. Dupré. It is difficult, and probably impossible, to fix the work of each of these artists separately, but among Codoré's productions are the following : A...
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