Watch List notes:

Art Nouveau, France, 'L'Enfant aux Roses', uniface copper plaque, 1906, by Ovide Yencesse (1869-1947), a young girl with roses gathered in a fold in her dress, some of which spill out, child with robe containing roses, 105 x 65mm. (Maier 196; Coll. R. Marx 159; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.369, 7; M. Jones, Art of the Medal, 334a; BDM VI. 695), in the soft style characteristic of the medallist, good very fine and when this size, rare
The plaquette is most commonly found with a reverse of a rose and a space for an inscription and in a reduced (54 x 33mm.) size. Jones writes of Yencesse that 'even the figures in his extravagantly sentimental struck works seem to inhabit a strange, half-lit world'.
(100-140 GBP)