France, Fil de la Vierge, 1908, a bronze plaque by P.-C. Lenoir, Virgin Mary asleep near her spinning wheel, angels unwinding thread from her distaff and spreading it over the fields, rev. flowers linked by threads of dew, legend in four lines at left, 68 x 50mm (PBE 563; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.191, 12; BDM VII, 547; cf. DNW 49, 922). Extremely fine and very rare (£40-50)