FRANCE, L’Horticulture, or La Science enseigne l’Horticulture à la

FRANCE, L’Horticulture, or La Science enseigne l’Horticulture à la Jeunesse [Science Teaching Horticulture to the Young], 1899 [issued 1901], an Art Nouveau silver-gilt plaque by J.-B. Daniel-Dupuis, female figure teaching another to prune a plant in a flower-pot, rev. naked young girl sat under a tree, creating a posy, field engraved (Offert par La Ville de Villers s/Mer), edge impressed 2 argent and cornucopia, 61 x 48mm, 92.88g (Maier 122; PBE 304; CGMP p.175; Coll. R. Marx 306; BM Acq. 1978-82, pl. 41, 72; BDM I, 664; cf. CGB Nov. 2023, 482; cf. Kölner Münzkabinett 116, 1692; cf. Silich III, 979). Test marks on upper right edge of obverse, otherwise very fine, charming style £90-£120.

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