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Cast bronze medal. The obverse bears the portrait of Boiceau to the right, wearing a ruff and a cloak over an embroidered doublet. The reverse presents a landscape, with six caterpillars or silk worms crawling on the ground and six silk moths or butterflies flying in the air, and a town in the background.
Victoria and Albert Museum
London
Title
Jacques Boiceau, Sieur de la Baroderie
Date
1624
Medium
bronze
Accession number
A.365-1910
Acquisition method
Salting bequest
Work type
Sculpture
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, Greater London SW7 2RL England
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