CRAYEN, THOMAS (French). Moneyer to the Duchy of Bouillon, 1614.
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
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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COCHIN, DANIEL
COCHIN, DANIEL (Swiss). Medallist of Geneva, second half of the eighteenth century. His signature is found on a medal of 1768, truck in honour of the 24 Commissioners of the Republic of Geneva. He seems to have been established as a goldsmith in that city and to have produced occasionally some medallic works. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Bulletin suisse de numismatique, — 1892. — Tobler-Meyer, Die Wunderh v. Müralt Münz-und Medaillen-Sammlung, 1898. R. Stuart Poole, op. cit. — C. Brun,...
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COCHIN, DANIEL (Swiss). Medallist of Geneva, second half of the eighteenth century. His signature is found on a medal of 1768, truck in honour of the 24 Commissioners of the Republic of Geneva. He seems to have been established as a goldsmith in that city and to have produced occasionally some medallic works. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Bulletin suisse de numismatique, — 1892. — Tobler-Meyer, Die Wunderh v. Müralt Münz-und Medaillen-Sammlung, 1898. R. Stuart Poole, op. cit. — C. Brun,...
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