Baldwin & Sons
Auction 101 28 September 2016
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, France, Saint Paul, a high quality Gilt Electrotype Roundel, after Jean Warin, 1630, the Saint's bearded bust right, his left hand across his breast, PAULUS below, 152mm. Extremely fine and decorative.
Two signed original oval medallions are recorded, in the Curtius Museum, Liège (Frédéric Pény, Jean Varin de Liège, 1947, Pl XXII) and The Detroit Institute of Arts (E. de Callatay, Two Gilded Bronze Plaques by Jean Warin II, Bulletin, vol 49, no.2, 1970, p.32); a similarly attributed plaster bas-relief is in the Wellcome Library, London (ICV No 17690).
Estimate: £80-120
Two signed original oval medallions are recorded, in the Curtius Museum, Liège (Frédéric Pény, Jean Varin de Liège, 1947, Pl XXII) and The Detroit Institute of Arts (E. de Callatay, Two Gilded Bronze Plaques by Jean Warin II, Bulletin, vol 49, no.2, 1970, p.32); a similarly attributed plaster bas-relief is in the Wellcome Library, London (ICV No 17690).
Estimate: £80-120