IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156626 accession number: CM.151-1917 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: One of a set of nine bronze plaquettes depicting successive rulers of the Indian state of Baroda, that were created to be awarded to students of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, the foundation of the commissioning monarch, Sir Sayajirao Gaekwar III (1875-1938). A set each was awarded at the creation of the series to the British Museum, the Fitzwilliam and the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The intention was that the dynastic history of the state be spread through the land by the awarding of these plaquettes to its most successful students, but in the event the program was never fulfilled, and these interesting and unusual pieces remain extremely rare. title: Award for Merit LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156626 CATEGORIES ------ category: plaquette DATING ------ creation date: 1917 - 1917 creation date earliest: 1917 creation date latest: 1917 CREATORS -------- maker: Sayaji Rao III (1875-1938) maker: Pilaji Rao (1721-32) maker: Bowcher, Frank maker: Baroda CITATIONS -------- The Gaekwars of Baroda in Medallic Art --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_151_1917_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 238 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_151_1917_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 238 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_151_1917_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 238 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_151_1917_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 238 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_151_1917_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 236 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_151_1917_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 236 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_151_1917_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 236 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_151_1917_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 236 pixels