Gustave MIKLOS (1888-1967)
Commemorative plaque... Lot 172
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Gustave MIKLOS (1888-1967)
Commemorative plaque in gilded bronze
decoration of a woman emerging from flames and
flames and fireplaces, dedicated to Maurice
Danset on the front and engraved on the back Standard
franco-américaine de raffinage, inauguration of
the Port-Jérôme refinery 1933-1934.
Signed on the front and marked bronze on the
edge.
10.5 x 6.5 cm
History: in 1934, the Monnaie de Paris cast
200 examples of this plate, commissioned by
Standard, a company headed by Jacques André, for the
the inauguration of the refinery's Normandy site.
refinery. Maurice Danset was a director of SA
Lille Bonnières et Colombes and treasurer of the Chambre
Chambre syndicale de l'industrie du pétrole.
Bibliography: Danuta Cichocka, Gustave Miklos, the Byzantine
moderniste byzantin, Fata Libelli Editions, Paris, 2014,
model referenced as n°S100 and reproduced on p. 87.
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