Auction Catalogue

11 July 2006

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 2678

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11 July 2006

Hammer Price:
£100

France, Agriculture, 1906, a plated bronze plaque by C.P. Pillet, Ceres accompanying two bullocks ploughing, led by a peasant, rev. seated figure under a tree contemplating a field of wheat, tablet at right (Concours de Lons-le-Saunier, 1907), 65 x 48mm (CGMP p.315; BDM IV, 537; BM Acq. 1983-7, pl.44, 110; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.236, 1; cf. DNW 50, 1222); Femme avec Arbre, c. 1910, a plated bronze plaque by S. Grün, robed female standing under tree, holding one of its branches, rev. musical instruments, named (‘La Rieuse’ à M. Douté), 63 x 47mm; Horticulture, 1912, a plated bronze award plaque by J.-P. Legastelois, seated female with putti admiring flowers and trees, rev. vegetables and fruit, named (A.A.C.L., 1964, Mr Watteaux), 59 x 45mm (PBE 532; CGMP p.237); Fame, c. 1925, a uniface plated bronze plaque by A. Bélier, Fame blowing trumpet, back named (L’U.N.C. de Bois Colombes a leur ami Douté, 28 Novembre 1931), 72 x 65mm [4]. About very fine and better (£70-100)