Plaquette - 'Le Lion de Belfort'

$395 AUD

Item 3380

A rare silvered bronze plaquette depicting the Lion of Belfort sculpture symbolising the French resistance during the Franco-Prussion War (1870-71) In original fitted case.
Unsigned. Blank verso.

French, circa 1900.

*The Lion of Belfort is a monumental stone sculpture by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty. It is situated on the cliff below the Belfort Castle in Belfort, France, The lion symbolizes the heroic French resistance during the Siege of Belfort.
Completed in 1880, it is constructed entirely of red sandstone. Twenty-two metres in length and eleven metres in height, the colossal work dominates the local landscape.

CONDITION: Very good.

DIMENSIONS: 65 x 48mm

AVAILABILITY: In stock

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