Virgin and Child Maternal Love

Maternal Love is an 18-karat yellow gold christening medal depicting the Virgin and Child, their faces close together, the Child's little hand resting under his mother's chin.

A Virgin and Child, face to face

Mary is seen in profile, a veil resting on her hair and falling to her shoulders, a beaded halo behind her head. She has bent her face until it almost touches the Child's, nestled in her arms, who looks up at her and rests his little hand under her chin, as if to hold her there. The two gazes meet a few millimetres apart. The Child wears a fine-line halo. The model's name says what the relief shows: nothing but a mother's love for her child, and his for her. Our sculptor took particular care with the faces and the little hand, which catches the light at the centre of the medal.

A christening medal struck in the traditional way in 18-karat gold

Like all our gold medals, Maternal Love is made by stamping: the 750/1000 gold blank is struck under an engraved die, for a crisp and lasting relief, then given a satin finish. The gold weight is 2.30 g in 16 mm and 2.90 g in 18 mm. Made in France, in our workshop.

Diameter, engraving and variations

The 16 mm is the christening size; the 18 mm, the classic size. The smooth reverse takes an engraving, first name and date, carried out in the workshop with the engraving package. Maternal Love is available in gold and mother-of-pearl, in solid silver and in silver and mother-of-pearl, to be worn on an 18-karat yellow gold trace chain.