Lot Archive

Lot

№ 876

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21 March 2001

Hammer Price:
£60

France, Art Appliqué à l’Industrie, 1884, a silver award plaque by L.-O. Roty for the Société d’Encouragement à l’Art et à l’Industrie, helmeted head of La Republique left, reverse Vulcan showing his work to Minerva, named (Geo. Rouard, Salon des Artistes Decorateurs, 1920), 59 x 42mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.88; Coll. R. Marx 9 and 69; cf. CGMP p.360 for types; cf. BDM V, 230; Gaz. Num. 1897, p.133, 8 variety; cf. DNW 47, 844). Good very fine, scarce (£40-60)

Georges Rouard, a partner in Maison Rouard, Paris, and employer of Christian Christensen (see DNW 48, introduction)