Great Britain Medal 1736 George II. Jernegan´s Lottery. VF

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1736, Great Britain, George II. Jernegan´s Lottery. Silver Medal.


Mint Year: 1736
Reference: Betts 169.
Condition: A decent VF.
Medallist: John S. Tanner
Denomination: Medal - Jernegan´s Lottery
Material: Silver
Diameter: 39mm
Weight: 20gm

Obverse: Helmeted standing figure of Minerva, surrounded by objects of war (shield with gorgoneion, flags, armories), arts, science and industry.
Legend: BOTH HANDS FILL'D FOR BRITAIN
Exergue: GEORGE REIGNING

Reverse: Female crowned and togate figure (personification of the British Empire), watering young palmettos.
Legend: GROWING ARTS ADORN EMPIRE
Exergue: CAROLINE PROTECTING / 1736.

Issued by London goldsmith Henry Jernegan in his lottery to dispose of a massive silver wine "cistern" he created and found impossible to sell. It ended up at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg.



The magnificent silver wine cistern was commissioned by the English banker and silversmith Henry Jernegan (ca. 1688–1745/6) for his client Littleton Pointz Meynell (ca. 1695–1752) who was desirous to have the "largest and finest silver cistern that ever was or could be…" A first sketch of the design honoring the wine god Bacchus was done by the antiquarian and engraver George Vertue (1684-1756) and the wax models for the figures were executed by the Flemish-born English sculptor John Michael Rysbrack (1694–1770). The actual cistern, now in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, was the work of the silversmith Charles Frederick Kandler (act. 1720–1770s). When this remarkable piece was finally ready in 1734, Meynell had changed his mind and Jernegan was stuck with the extravagant object for which he failed to find a buyer. Offered as first price in a lottery of 1739, the wine cistern entered the collection of Empress Anne of Russia by the following year.

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