Live auction - fme_612559 - ANIMALS Plaquette animalière - les lions

ANIMALS Plaquette animalière - les lions XF

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Estimate :	220 €
Price :	150 €
Maximum bid :	150 €
End of the sale :	26 January 2021 21:27:33
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Plaquette animalière - les lions

Date: (c.1931)

Metal : bronze

Diameter : 47,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Engraver THENOT René Maurice (1893-1963)

Weight : 124,6 g.

Edge : lisse + corne BRONZE

Puncheon : corne BRONZE

Coments on the condition:

Patine hétérogène avec des taches à l’avers et un aspect nettoyé au revers

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Lion et lionne de profil à gauche au milieu d’herbes hautes ; signé : RF THENOT.

Reverse

Reverse legend : LISSE.

Commentary

Dimensions : 47,5*80,5 mm
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 sur les animaux de la jungle. Elle comprend les koudous, les impalas, le cougar, les girafes, le python, un combat d'antilopes, les lions, l'éléphant et le rhinocéros, en plus du buffle.
Dimensions: 47.5*80.5 mm 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 on jungle animals. It includes kudus, impalas, cougars, giraffes, pythons, an antelope fight, lions, elephants and rhinoceroses, in addition to buffalo.