ID 1027633
Los 112 | A CONTINENTAL JEWELED AND ENAMELED GOLD PENDANT OF SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
Schätzwert
$ 3 000 – 5 000
ATTRIBUTED TO ALFRED ANDRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1870
Renaissance style, of openwork architectural form, the center with an enameled figure of Saint George and the Dragon supported on a plinth set with table-cut diamonds and rubies above an enameled satyr mask, all framed by scrollwork set with precious stones, with three pendant pearls, the reverse of the plain backplate enameled with champlevé enamel scrolls, mounted in gold, with suspension ring
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) high
1 oz. 9 dwt. (46 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 2497).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 1170) and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/31).
Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, Munich, 1979, p. 58, illustrated p. 67, No 147 and plate VI.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
A. Kugel, R. Distelberger and M. Bimbenet‑Privat, Joyaux Renaissance, Une splendeur retrouvée, Paris, 2000.
P. Plock, 'Rothschilds, rubies and rogues The 'Renaissance' jewels of Waddesdon Manor', Journal of the History of Collections, 2017.
| Material: | Acrylglas, Diamanten, Emaille, Gold, Edelsteine, Kunststoff |
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| Herkunftsort: | Westeuropa, Frankreich, Europa |
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| Material: | Acrylglas, Diamanten, Emaille, Gold, Edelsteine, Kunststoff |
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| Herkunftsort: | Westeuropa, Frankreich, Europa |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Alle anderen Arten von Objekten |
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