Live auction - fme_612554 - ANIMALS Plaquette animalière - Python

ANIMALS Plaquette animalière - Python AU

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Estimate :	220 €
Price :	150 €
Maximum bid :	150 €
End of the sale :	26 January 2021 21:36:13
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Plaquette animalière - Python

Date: 1985

Metal : bronze

Diameter : 74,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Engraver THENOT René Maurice (1893-1963)

Weight : 152,4 g.

Edge : lisse + 1985 + corne BRONZE

Puncheon : corne BRONZE

Coments on the condition:

Patine hétérogène avec de petites taches

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Python enroulé sur une branche; signé en bas à droite : RF THENOT.

Reverse

Reverse legend : LISSE.

Commentary

Dimensions : 51,5*74,5 mm
Il s’agit d’une refrappe de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle.
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 buffle, un combat d'antilopes, les lions, l'éléphant et le rhinocéros, en plus du python.
Dimensions: 51.5*74.5 mm This is a re-striking from the second half of the 20th century. 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, buffalo, an antelope fight, lions, elephants and rhinoceroses, in addition to the python