FRANCE, Maternité, or Fileuse allaitant [Motherhood, or Nursing Spinner]

FRANCE, Maternité, or Fileuse allaitant [Motherhood, or Nursing Spinner], 1902, an Art Nouveau silver award plaque by J.-P.-J.-M. Legastelois, a Breton woman briefly sets aside her spinning wheel to nurse her newborn child, at left, in a window recess, a few flowers stand in a pitcher, rev. distaff resting on a book, surrounded by oak and laurel branches, un-named, edge impressed argent and cornucopia, 63 x 52mm, 80.53g (Maier 230 [Sale, lot 1997]; PBE 535; CGMP p.236; BM Acq. 1978-82, pl. 43, 96; BDM III, 372; cf. CNG e466, 616; cf. DNW 40, 757). Some light staining, otherwise about very fine, rare £90-£120.

Estimation:€107.31

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