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Live auction - fme_612555 - ANIMALS Plaquette animalière - Buffle

ANIMALS Plaquette animalière - Buffle AU
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Estimate : 220 €
Price : 150 €
Maximum bid : 150 €
End of the sale : 26 January 2021 21:26:33
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Plaquette animalière - Buffle
Date: (c.1931)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 51,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver THENOT René Maurice (1893-1963)
Weight : 131,7 g.
Edge : lisse + corne METAL F
Puncheon : corne METAL
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène. Traces d’un ancien nettoyage et de petites concrétions dans les creux des reliefs

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buffle de face au milieu d’un paysage tropical; signé : RF THENOT.

Reverse


Reverse legend : LISSE.

Commentary


Dimensions : 51,5*75mm
François Maurice Thénot (1893-1963) est un sculpteur et médailliste, médaille d'argent au Salon des Artistes français en 1936.
Cette plaquette rentre dans une série d’animaux de la jungle. On connaît les plaquettes représentant les koudous, les impalas, le cougar, les girafes, le python, un combat d'antilopes, les lions, l'éléphant et le rhinocéros, en plus de la buffle.

Historical background


ANIMALS

Animals (Animalia) (from the Latin animalis "animated, living, animal") are in biology, according to the classical classification, heterotrophic living beings (that is to say, which feed on organic substances) and possess collagen in their extracellular matrices. See Wikipedia.

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