France, Camille Legrand, c.1905, a cast bronze electrotype plaque by I. Rouchomowsky, bust right, rev. frontal elevation of a building on a street corner, 91 x 57mm. Very fine and extremely rare (£80-100)

Israel Rouchomowsky, a goldsmith from Odessa, gained considerable notoriety as a first-class imitator of antique jewellery in the 1890s. He made the famous ‘Tiare de Saïtaphernes’ purchased by the Louvre in 1896. The French government of the time invited him to come from Russia to demonstrate his manufacturing techniques and he settled in Paris, exhibiting a variety of sculptures and plaques at the Salons from 1904