ID 1027589
Los 120 | A CONTINENTAL JEWELED AND ENAMELED GOLD PENDANT OF SALOME
Schätzwert
$ 5 000 – 8 000
POSSIBLY SOUTH GERMANY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, AND WITH LATER ELEMENTS
Of openwork architectural form, the central group depicting Salome and the head of John the Baptist flanked by two soldiers enameled in white and pale blue, the figures supported on a plinth set with table-cut rubies set plinth, the upper body formed of scrollwork set with additional rubies and pearls, with three pendant pearls, the reverse of the plain backplate enameled with champlevé enamel scrolls and foliage, mounted in gold, with suspension ring
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
2 oz. 5 dwt. (70 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in Fumoir sur la cour, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 2494).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/28).
Returned to France on 2 March 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905, 000/1037/01(hôtel Saint-Florentin, Entresol: 'Bijou, trois personnages or, émail, rubis XVIe siècle, estimé dix mille francs').
Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, Munich, 1979, p. 180-181, illustrated p. 179, No. 490.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
A. Somers Cocks and C. Truman, Renaissance Jewels, Gold Boxes, and Objets de Vertu, 1984, p. 96.
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