This ivory medallion commemorates the marriage of Christianus Guldenleu and Charlotta Amalia, Countess of Denmark. A winged putto stands holding a scroll inscribed VENI VIDI VICI (I came, I saw, I conquered, the words of Julius Caesar on the Roman invasion of Britain), and stands opposite a lion chained to the base of an obelisk on ball-feet.

Christianus Guldenleu, Herr zur Graffschaft Samsoe, was the illegitimate son of Christian V of Denmark. He became supreme military commander in Norway, and was made a knight of the Order of the Elephant in 1693. He married the daughter of the Statthalter of Norway, Countess Charlotte Amalia Danneskiold-Laurvig, on 27 November 1696, the date inscribed on this ivory. The putto and lion on the reverse must be inspired by the reverse of the marriage medal made for Leonello d'Este (also the illegitimate son of a ruler, who himself acquired a powerful position) by Pisanello in 1444. But the lion and the pine tree on the reverse are also references to Norway, and its coat of arms.

Although previously thought to be perhaps by Magnus Berg (1666-1739), the style of this ivory is less assured than his known work, and the date too suggests he is not the author, since he did not start working in ivory before 1701. It is probably German or Danish.

The sculptor Gottfried Wolffram, to whom the medallion is ascribed was active in 1677-1707. His date of birth is unknown. He is recorded as working in Danzig with the sculptor and amber carver Nicolaus Turow, perhaps as his apprentice, in 1677. He entered the service of Charlotte Amelie, Queen of Denmark and consort of King Christian V in 1699. He was subsequently employed in Prussia, and produced the Amber Room for Friedrich I at Berlin, which was presented to Peter the Great of Prussia, and then removed to Koenigsberg during the Second World War; It is now lost, probably destroyed.