A FRENCH RENAISSANCE DIAMOND-SET AND ENAMELED GOLD BADGE OF SAINT MICHAEL AND THE DRAGON

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Los 2 | A FRENCH RENAISSANCE DIAMOND-SET AND ENAMELED GOLD BADGE OF SAINT MICHAEL AND THE DRAGON
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A FRENCH RENAISSANCE DIAMOND-SET AND ENAMELED GOLD BADGE OF SAINT MICHAEL AND THE DRAGON

PROBABLY TOURS, FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY

Depicting Saint Michael raising his sword and standing above the slain dragon, the body and sword set on the front with diamonds and with white enameled face, his gold wings finely chased to imitate feathers, the green enameled dragon holding a red enameled shield, enameled on the reverse with scrolling foliage

2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high

1 oz. 11 dwt. (49 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 2500) .

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. 1371/37).

Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, London, 1979, ill. p. 58 and pl. VI.
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