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Box for the Storage of Medals
Not on view
Bearing the royal coat of arms, this box for medals may resemble the two examples the Dutch diplomat Cornelis Hop received following his farewell audience at Fontainebleau in November 1725. Rather than silver medals of the French kings, as included here, the king gave Hop a collection of commemorative gold medals as well as a diamond-mounted gold snuffbox with miniature portraits of Louis XV and his wife, Marie Leszczýnska, inside the lid.
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