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For more information, additional images and to bid on this lot please go to the auctioneer's website, www.noonans.co.uk Turin, Pierre (French, 1891-1968); b. Sucy-en-Brie, Paris FRANCE , Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes , Paris , 1925, an Art Déco octagonal bronze plaque by P. Turin, semi-naked female sat to right on a cloud, dispensing roses from a basket supported by her left arm, rev . legend on tablet, flowers in background, edge impressed cuivre and cornucopia, 60mm, 91.56g (Maier 322 [Sale, lot 1626]; Classens 128; cf . MDC 11, 1236; cf . Silich III, 1193). One of the classic Art Déco medallic images, very fine £80-£100 --- Provenance: Bt Irene Allen October 2006. The Expo, centred on Les Invalides and the entrances of the Grand and Petit Palais and staged between 29 April and 25 October 1925, hosted 15,000 exhibitors from 20 different countries. The idea of holding it, though, was not new and had first been mooted in 1912, with a planned exhibition in 1915; the intervention of War and a subsequent shortage of construction materials led to further postponements in 1922 and 1924