Watch List notes:

Military, World War II: Liberation of Ghent [Gent], bronze plaquette, 1945, by Olivier Maurice Piette (1885-1948), for Fonson, medieval city guard watches the allied eagle flying above the maple leaf of Canada, unicorn of England, the bison of the United States of America, and advancing soldiers, 6/9 I944 LIBERATION VAN GENT, rev. the dragon of Ghent above panel, this engraved 'HONOUR TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE OUR LIBERATORS I-XII-1945', 81.5 x 91mm., good very fine and rare
Whilst a post-war production, the plaquette is very much in the Art Deco style. Ghent was liberated on 6 September 1944, the German army withdrawing permanently during the night of 14-15 September. Was lot 442 Auction 37
(80-120 GBP)