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A CIRCULAR LIMOGES ENAMEL CHARGER DEPICTING THE STORY OF PSYCHE

Lot 16
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
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Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 16 | A CIRCULAR LIMOGES ENAMEL CHARGER DEPICTING THE STORY OF PSYCHE
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
A CIRCULAR LIMOGES ENAMEL CHARGER DEPICTING THE STORY OF PSYCHE

WORKSHOP OF PIERRE REYMOND, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

Parcel-gilt and polychrome enamel; the central narrative section with initials 'P. R.' and inscribed 'LAMOVR.DE.CVPIDO.ET DE.PSICHE.MERE.DE VOLVTE.' and with a raised circular element to the center with a portrait of a female member of the Valois court; the borders to the front and central section of the reverse decorated with scrolling foliage and mythological figures

18 in. (45.5 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Probably Collection Achille Seillière (1782-1850).

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France after May 1940 (ERR no. R 3891).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 398/29).

Returned to France on 23 May 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

L. de Laborde, Notice des émaux, bijoux et objets divers exposés dans les galeries du Musée du Louvre, 1ère partie : Histoire et description, Paris, 1853, pp. 214-215.

M. Ardant, Emailleurs limousins. Les Reymond, Paris, 1861, p. 22.

A. Darcel, 'Le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance au Trocadéro', in L'art ancien à l'Exposition de 1878, Paris, 1879, p. 318.

P. Verdier, Catalogue of the painted enamels of the Renaissance, Baltimore, 1967, p. 248.

S. L. Caroselli, The painted enamels of Limoges, A Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1993, p. 102.



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

P. Verdier, Catalogue of the painted enamels of the Renaissance, Baltimore, 1967, pp. 244-248.

P. Verdier, M. S. Dimand, K. C. Buhler, The Frick Collection : an illustrated catalogue. Volume VIII : Enamels, rugs and silver, New York, 1977, pp. 140-145.

S. L. Caroselli, The painted enamels of Limoges, A Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1993, pp. 98-103.



The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Entresol, ‘Grand plat rond à ombilic épisode de Psyché - Limosin [sic] -15,000 francs’).



Exhibited

Paris, Palais du Trocadéro, Exposition rétrospective also named Exposition historique de l'art ancien during the Exposition universelle, 1st May-31st October 1878.
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