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France, Les Potiers, 1915, a bronze plaque by P.-C. Lenoir, workers at the three stages of pottery-making shown as a triptych, reverse an old woman seated outside a building with pots for sale, 100 x 41mm (PBE 557; CGMP p.242; BDM VII, 549; cf. DW 19, 280). Minor scratch in centre of reverse, otherwise about extremely fine, an attractive plaque (£50-70)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Art Medals formed by Christian Christensen.

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Forrer, writing just after the First World War, says of this piece: “The triptych of potters, representing the history of pottery as it is still practised in a little hamlet in Brittany called La Poterie, near Lamballe”