Berkeley university Architecture prize , O Roty Bronze Phoebe Hearst Rep. 1990

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Berkely university Architecture prize , O Roty Metal , Phoebe Hearst Circa 1895. Condition is "Used". Shipped with USPS First Class.
Text for medal:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst Plaque, 1900. Eidlitz 68; Baxter 39. 142 x 108mm (5 ½” x 4 ¼”) . Cast Bronze with Gilt finish. Uniface. Choice Uncirculated. Oscar Louis Roty, Sc. Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint). Obverse: bust of Mrs. Hearst to the right within an ornamental roped circle; a floral spray below. At bottom is a two line Latin inscription: LAVDENT · EAM/ IN · PORTIS · OPERA · EJVS (They praise her by means of her works.) Signed/incused within the floral spray, bottom right: O ROTY. A similar plaque was awarded a year later in 1901, for "The International Competition for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan for the University of California" (Berkeley), as it was officially called. The patron, who made the whole campaign possible with a generous gift in 1896, was the mining and real estate heiress, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, who would become the University's greatest early benefactor. Henri Jean Emile Benard, a French architect won the competition in 1898, over 105 other architects worldwide, and was awarded ,000 along with a medal. This rare plaque is known in this larger (142 x 108mm) cast bronze version as both uniface and two sided, and as a struck medal in both silver and bronze. Another 136.6 x 103.21mm cast bronze pattern was sold in Presidential Coin & Antique Co.’s 2000 Dusterberg Sale for 0.00. Two smaller struck silver plaques (80.5 x 61.5mm) are the only other ones known, where Presidential Coin & Antique Co. sold a silver specimen in their 2007 Auction No.77, Lot #542, with a suggested price of 0.00+. The second silver plaque can be found in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris , France . For reference and information purposes only, please see the listed image of a silver plaque showing Roty’s profile of Phoebe Apperson Hearst. A two-sided wax model of the medal/plaque by Roty is in the collections of UC President Robert Gordon Sproul (1930-1958) at The Bancroft Library, University of California , Berkeley. Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919) was the wife of George Hearst and the mother of William Randolph Hearst. She and her husband donated large sums to the University of California and sponsored the 1898 The International Competition for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan for the University of California at Berkeley. Louis-Oscar Roty (1846-1911) is one of the most celebrated medalists of the Art Nouveau period. Born in Paris , he first studied painting and sculpture, working under Lecoq de Boisboudran, Dumont and Ponscarme. His mentor François-Joseph-Hubert Ponscarme (1827-1903) was largely responsible for the renewal of medallic art at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1867 he had abandoned the medal rim in his design for his medal of Naudet, the background and graphics becoming part of the sculpture. Roty, along with Champlai