France, Léopold Flameng, c.1900, a uniface cast bronze portrait plaque, unsigned [attributed to Ernesta Robert-Merignac], bust left, 118 x 93mm (BDM VIII, 162). Extremely fine and practically as made, lovely rich brown patina, rare (£50-70)

Léopold Flameng (1834-1911), engraver, was elected to the Academie des Beaux-Arts in 1898; it is thought this plaque was executed at about that time