Bronze Medal, Great Britain. 2013.49.13

Physical Description

• Axis: 12

• Measurements

  • Length: 65
  • Length: 90

Typological Description

• Object Type: Medal

• Date on Object

  • Date: 1991
• Manufacture: Cast

• Authority

  • Maker: Singer, Tallix Morris
  • Artist: Searle, Ronald
  • Issuer: British Art Medal Society

• Geographic

  • Place of Issue: England
  • Place of Cataloging Relevance: Great Britain

• Obverse

  • Type: Weeping eye.

• Reverse

  • Legend: Bye/ Bye

• Edge

  • Description: Ronald Searle

References

• Reference: The.Medal.no.20(1992)
• Reference: BAMS.79
• Reference: Galst.vanAlfen.XIII.74

Administrative History

• Identifier: 2013.49.13
• Lot: 2013.49
• Department: Medals and Decorations
• Collection: American Numismatic Society

• Provenance

  • Simmons, Mailbit 64, September 2013, Lot 72.

Description

"Bye Bye Eye" Edition of 25. The artist has written that the medal can be seen as �either a weeping paperweight, a tearful, fearful, separation object, a cry-by-night loveletter weight, or simply as an ex-voto, because it all turned out well in the end.�

Subjects

• Category: british art medal society

Rights

• CopyrightHolder: American Numismatic Society
• License: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (images)
• Rights: Copyright Undetermined