Gustave MIKLOS (1888-1967) - Lot 172

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.