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A LARGE COLLECTION OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY PORTRAIT AND OTHER PLAQUES comprising --ÉTIENNE-HIPPOLYTE MAINDRON (FRENCH, 1801-1884): PORTRAIT OF A. J. BARROIS cast bronze medallic plaquette, bust in very high relief left, his name behind in script, "A. J. Barrois", signed below truncation, ‘H. MAINDRON’, 173mm, without foundry mark, dark patination -GEORGE WASHINGTON, A PORTRAIT MEDALLION, TOGETHER WITH FIVE FURTHER comprising: George Washington, a 19th century circular cast iron portrait medallion, his head and shoulders to right, name below, 155mm.; OLIVER CROMWELL (1599-1658), an oval cast iron plaquette of, after Roubilliac (see lot P016 ), armoured bust to right and shoulder-length hair 129 x 100mm., GEORGE III AND QUEEN CHARLOTTE, cast iron medallic ornament, conjoined busts right, he in armour and laureate, 110mm. h & w; NAPOLEON I (1769- 1821), cast bronze medallic portrait, uniformed bust right, in high relief, 100mm., perhaps a trial as numeral “1” in field before bust; GEORGE IV, silhouetted gilt-brass portrait, bust right in Coronation robes, 95 x 75mm. (discoloured) (5) - AFTER HANS JAMNITZER (GERMAN, 1539–1603): PLAQUETTE, TOGETHER WITH FOUR FURTHER comprising: 1. AFTER HANS JAMNITZER (GERMAN, 1539–1603), 18th /19th century reworking, THE JUDGEMENT OF SOLOMON, circular bronze plaquette, after a 16th century original from the workshop of Hans Jamnitzer circa 1575; King Solomon seated in judgement with the two women pleading in the foreground, while the executioner holds the baby by the feet, sword at the ready, landscape of buildings, a church and hills and towns beyond, 140mm. 2. AFTER HANS JACOB BAYR (GERMAN, AUGSBURG, 1574-1628), the style of, ATHENA GIVES NAMES TO THE ARTS, two decorative 19th century circular bronzed electrotype copies of an earlier plaquette, Athena leads the personification of Painting past an altar and into the circle of Arts and Sciences, represented by seven muses amidst a classical townscape, 150mm, slightly convex flans, one silvered, one mounted in rectangular dark wood frame, (2) 3. ANGLO-GERMAN BRONZED ELECTROTYPE, a marriage scene, early 18th century style, 19th century, possibly a design for a box lid, 140mm x 100mm. 4. 19TH CENTURY FRENCH: PORTRAIT OF VIANNEY', a small oval electrotype with bronzed patination, depicting Vianney at prayer, inscribed 'JN. MIE. BTE. VIANNEY CURE D'ARS MORT LE A AOUT 1859', in integral frame, 112mm high -JOHN HENNING (SCOTTISH, 1771-1851): A PAIR OF PLASTER PLAQUES AFTER RAPHAEL “PAUL PREACHING AT ATHENS – Proclaims the True God the Creator of Heaven & Earth”, signed: HENNING . F. MARCH 1821. AFTER RAPHAEL”; Acts XIII, St. Paul blinds the Sorcerer Elymas, signed “AFTER RAPHAEL HENNING F. LONDON MARCH 1822”, each in low relief with decorative border, in original plain glazed satinwood frames, each 208 x 292mm., (2) -PAUL-GABRIEL CAPELLARO (FRENCH, 1862-1956): A PAIR OF PATINATED PLASTER BAS-RELIEF PLAQUES OF CHILDREN a girl with long hair, facing to right and a boy to left, signed and dated 1902 and 1903, each 170 x 100mm., mounted vis-à-vis, in a heavy frame, the frame 37.3 x 59cm - AN INTERESTING PAIR OF PLASTER PORTRAITS, ONE OF SCARPA, ONE BY SCARPA CECIL HARMSWORTH KING (BRITISH, 1901-1987) AND GIOVANNI SCARPA (ITALIAN, 20th Century) the pair of plaster portrait medallions of Scarpa by King, and King by Scarpa, dated 1926: King: his bust to right in open shirt, legend around within border, CECIL KING AD MXMXXVI DULCE EST MEMINISSE LABORUM ACTORUM, 154mm.; Scarpa: his bust to right, signed below “CECIL KING”, legend around, SIGNORE GIOVANNI SCARPA HOMO MVLTARVM LITERARVM. 1926, 155mm., both mounted on matching wood ‘frames’. - 19TH CENTURY ARGENTINE SCHOOL: PORTRAIT BAS-RELIEF PLAQUE OF BARTOLOMÉ MITRE MARTINEZ 1821–1906; President of Argentina, 1862-1868, unsigned, his portrait bust to left, inscribed below, “D. Bartolomé Mitre, Brigadier General y Ex Presidente de la Republica Argentina 1888”, 308 x 213mm. (12 x 8 3/8 ins); in its original and m