Boy pilot takes flight

As implied by a plaque to the base titled 'Aeroplane Par Omertz' [sic], this gilt bronze and ivory figure of a boy in an aeroplane was by Georges Omerth (fl.1895-1925).

Across three decades he produced figures in a range of modish styles from Neo-classicism (as a stu…

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