Watch List notes:

ART MEDALS, Société des Amis de la Médaille Française, 1899-1920, Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), pioneer of modern dance, Bronze Medal, 1900, by Pierre Roche (1855-1922), for the Société des Amis de la Médaille Française, Fuller dancing in the swirl of diaphanous robe, rev two crossed lilies, UN ETRE QUI N'ETAIT QUE LUMIERE OR ET GAZE, edge stamped BRONZE and numbered 169, 72mm (Maier 8; MeF 827; Marx 98; ANS: 1910 Exhibition, 10; BDM V, 144-45; The Medal 44, p.42). The occasional very minor surface mark, otherwise extremely fine and rare.
Pierre Roche, pseudonym of Fernand Massignon, sculptor, painter, ceramist and medallist, studied painting at the Académie Julian (1873-1878) under Alfred Roll and exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1884-1889.

Estimate: £600-800