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France, Jean-Baptiste Chardin, c.1900, a uniface cast bronze plaque by P.V. Dautel, half-length portrait of Chardin right, wearing cap and pince-nez glasses, female sat on a bed below, 161 x 90mm (BDM –). Softly worked, good very fine with attractive even patination, very rare; with integral screw attachment for mounting on the back (£70-90)

A very early work by Dautel, probably executed before he won the prix de Rome in 1902. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), French painter of still lifes and domestic scenes remarkable for their intimate realism, tranquil atmosphere and the luminous quality of their paint; perhaps this plaque was issued to commemorate the bicentenary of his birth