Antique French Wax Seal Bronze Figural Desk Stamp Jules Isidore LAFRANCE, Susse Freres Paris, Bust of Saint Jean Baptist baltic amber Stunning antique French 19th century

Stunning antique French 19th century hand painted porcelain plaque depicting a Renaissance inspired religious scene

Engraved with interlaced initials HT or HF in heavy cursive

The set appears to be silvered plate and comprises of a wax seal

Leola Isabel Freeman was a portrait

the mark was registered in 1946 and closed shortly after

Antique French Wax Seal Bronze Figural Desk Stamp Jules Isidore LAFRANCE, Susse Freres Paris, Bust of Saint Jean Baptist baltic amber Stunning antique French 19th centuryAntique 19th century French bronze figural wax seal desk stamp by the sculptor Jules Isidore LAFRANCE (1841 1881). A superb casted bust in silver gilded bronze statue depicting Saint Jean Baptist (St. John the Baptist). Signed J. Lafrance Prix de Rome and bearing with the brand of the founder Susse Frres Paris. Jules Isidore Lafrance won the Prix de Rome in 1870. The Prix de Rome, or also called the Grand Prix de Rome, was a French scholarship for