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Maternité, 1899, a bronze plaquette by A.-L.-M. Charpentier for the SAMF, mother seated on chair breast-feeding her baby, rev. bust of a girl right, 81 x 53mm, edge stamped 246 (Coll. R. Marx 92; PBE 150; BDM I, 411; cf. ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.58, 22; cf. DNW 35, 537). Extremely fine (£120-140)

One of the classic Art Nouveau medallic images; its origins were in a bronze bas-relief of 1883