France, Comité Français des Expositions à l’Étranger, 1899, a bronze plaque by L.-A. Bottee, seated robed female above implements of agriculture and industry, factories in background, rev. flowering tree, 64 x 42mm (PBE 19; Coll. R. Marx 386; BM Acq. 1978-82, p.38, 18; BDM I, 232). Extremely fine with virtually full original colour (£40-50)

Obverse only illustrated, reduced