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.
Dimensions: 51.5*75mm François Maurice Thénot (1893-1963) is a sculptor and medalist, silver medalist at the Salon des Artistes français in 1936. This plaquette is part of a series of jungle animals. We know the plaques representing kudus, impalas, cougars, giraffes, pythons, an antelope fight, lions, elephants and rhinoceroses, in addition to buffalo.