Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2014 NYINC Auction - Sess. C-D 13 January 2014
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FRANCE. Archaelogy, (1902).
50x70mm bronze, by Seraphin-Emile Vernier. Obverse: Nude holds aloft a treasure she has just unearthed. Reverse: A small sunken area reveals statue faces (Egyptian) and the top of a Grecian column. The rest of the reverse is smooth; Vernier's inspired gambit, not using most of the plaquette's surface, may have been intended to suggest how much of the Earth still awaits the revelations of Archaelogy. NEARLY MINT STATE.
50x70mm bronze, by Seraphin-Emile Vernier. Obverse: Nude holds aloft a treasure she has just unearthed. Reverse: A small sunken area reveals statue faces (Egyptian) and the top of a Grecian column. The rest of the reverse is smooth; Vernier's inspired gambit, not using most of the plaquette's surface, may have been intended to suggest how much of the Earth still awaits the revelations of Archaelogy. NEARLY MINT STATE.