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| 1924.123.1 |
| department: | ME |
| object type: | ME |
| measurements: | 90 mm |
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Finland, / 1923 / AE,
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| person: | Jean Sibelius |
| obverse type: | Bust of Sibelius l., wearing clerical-style collar and coat showing large, straight lapels. |
| obverse legend: | JEAN SIBELIUS |
| reverse type: | Nude male kneeling l., turned facing away, and with legs truncated just below the knees, playing a klarge, stylized ancient cythara of 11 strings, into which the left hand disappears; the figure kneels over the exergal line, on which the cythara rests, and from behind which a segment of a radiant sun appears. |
| reverse legend: | On raised ex., ANNO./DOM.; on r., reading outward, MCMXXIII |
| references: | Bostrom.1.156,2 |
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| region: | Finland |
| start date: | 1923 |
| end date: | 1923 |
| date on object: | 1923 |
| material: | AE |
| measurements: | 90 |
| person: | Jean Sibelius |
| references: | Bostrom.1.156,2 |
| artist: | Qvist, Gerda |
| obverse type: | Bust of Sibelius l., wearing clerical-style collar and coat showing large, straight lapels. |
| obverse legend: | JEAN SIBELIUS |
| reverse type: | Nude male kneeling l., turned facing away, and with legs truncated just below the knees, playing a klarge, stylized ancient cythara of 11 strings, into which the left hand disappears; the figure kneels over the exergal line, on which the cythara rests, and from behind which a segment of a radiant sun appears. |
| reverse legend: | On raised ex., ANNO./DOM.; on r., reading outward, MCMXXIII |
| subject - person: | Sibelius, Jean |
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