LOW COUNTRIES. Verenigde Nederlanden (United Netherlands). 1581-1795. Medal 1736 (Bronze, 72 mm, 50.52 g, 11 h), on the Silver Wedding Anniversary of Johannes van Essen and Margareta Koene, Amsterdam. In the centre, a cupid with a bundle of arrows and a lion, behind him a countryman and a city; on the left, a chapel resembling the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in which the personifications of faith, hope and love rest; on the right, a man kneeling next to a woman in a wheelchair, behind her an obelisk engraved with ‘25’ and a palm tree with a vine, from which hangs a chain with a lock held by a hand from heaven; above the clouds, sun and moon, a putto with a horn and a dove with an olive branch; in the foreground, a rooster and hen, a shovel, a yoke and a scythe. Rev. SOO BLOEYT DE TROU ALS MAN EN VROU HAER PLICT BETRACHTEN EN OP GODT WAGTEN ('Thus blossoms fidelity when man and wife fulfill their duty and place their trust in God') around 'Waarde Kindren neemt dit geschenk / Van Uwe Ouders en Gedenk / Dat haar Lieder Trouw Verbond / Nu Vyfen Twintig Jaar Stond / Ter gedagtenisse van de 25 Jarige Troudag / Johannes van Essen / en / Margareta Koene / Den 24. May / 1736' ('Dear children, accept this gift from your parents and remember that their bond of faithful love has now stood for twenty-five years. In commemoration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Johannes van Essen and Margareta Koene, on May 24, 1736.'). Dirks -. Rare. Flan fault and very minor glue residues on the reverse, otherwise, nearly very fine.