World Medals: Bottée, Louis-Alexandre (French, 1852-1941); b. Paris U.S.A./FRANCE, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904, an Art Nouveau bronze award plaque by L.A. Bottée for the Comité Français des Expositions à l’Etranger, allegory of France seated in a boat steered by Progress towards the Expo site, rev. tree and implements of industry at left, legend at right, tablet below un-named, edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 72 x 62mm, 148.92g (PBE 27; Baxter 112; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.17, 18; cf. MDC e17, 867; cf. Stack/s/Bowers Aug. 2021, 46327; cf. Baldwin 101, 3843; cf. DNW 49, 1041). About extremely fine £90-£120 Provenance: Bt Münz Zentrum Rheinland January 2003. Originally intended as a centenary celebration marking the purchase of the state of Louisiana from France in 1803, the exposition opened on 30 April 1904 and closed on 1 December, by which time it had received 19.7 million visitors