August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
FRANCE. Viniculture Rectangular Bronze Plaquette, 1908. UNCIRCULATED.
Weight: 208.2 gms; dimensions; 100x58mm. By Pierre-Alexandre Morlon. Obverse: Five men in wine press factory room, one shirtless in long smock, pulling lever of large wine screw press. Large conduit with crank above heavy screw; column with rope at middle right, pitcher below emanating small clouds of heat beside wine vat, large coffin above filled with grapes; Reverse: Two women picking grapes in long flowing dresses on either side of blank inscription field. Left figure faces right in smock holding basket of grapes, and right figure facing left with large bowl of grapes. Referred to variously as "Le Vin" and "Le Pressoir", this constituted Morlon's first major work, produced under a state commission, shown at the Paris Salon in 1908. A later version (1910) engraved in stone is preserved in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Building in his birthplace of Mâcon in the winemaking region of Burgundy. An example of this apparently rare, exquisitely rendered, plaquette is held by the Musée d'Orsay, (Medor 954). Maier, Französische Medaillenkunst, 319, #56.
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From the Stephen R. Parks Collection of Medallic Arts.
Estimate: $60.00- $100.00
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| Price realized | 360 USD |
| Starting price | 36 USD |
