
Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator
This auction has ended. View lot details


Sold for £3,840 inc. premium
Our Islamic and Indian Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialist
Senior Sale Coordinator

Head of Department
These medals were designed by C. H. Kuchler and produced at Matthew Boulton's Soho manufactory, with some being restruck in the nineteenth century (Christopher Eimer, British Commemorative Medals and their Values, London, 2010, No. 845). The "surrender of Tipu Sultan's sons to Lord Cornwallis" refers to an event during the Third Anglo-Mysore War where Tipu Sultan was forced to surrender two of his sons, Princes Abdul Khaliq (aged 10) and Mohin-ud-din (aged 8), as hostages to Lord Cornwallis, the British Governor-General of India, to guarantee his compliance with the Treaty of Seringapatam on February 26, 1792. Some versions of the medal are incorrectly dated as 1793.
Bronze examples are in the British Museum (Museum No. 1947,0607.663) and the Royal Collection (RCIN 443270). For a further example, see Christopher Eimer, British Commemorative Medals and their Values, London, 2010, No. 845, Pl. 94.