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№ 2558

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1 July 2008

Hammer Price:
£200

Belgium, L’Art, 1910, a silver-gilt plaque by G. Devreese for the Exposition Universelle, Brussels, Beaux-Arts section, naked female seated on rock, holding lyre and lamp, male Genie springing upwards at left, rev. legend flanked by two sheaves of wheat, named (Albert Ciamberlani), 82 x 48mm (BM Acq. 1978-82, pl.13, 35; BDM VI, 320; cf. DNW 70, 2449). Very fine, rare (£80-100)

Obverse only illustrated. Albert Ciamberlani (1864-1956), symbolist painter of figures, participated in most of the international expositions held in the years before World War I