A CIRCULAR SARDONYX CAMEO REPRESENTING A HORSEMAN

Lot 118
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Lot 118 | A CIRCULAR SARDONYX CAMEO REPRESENTING A HORSEMAN
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A CIRCULAR SARDONYX CAMEO REPRESENTING A HORSEMAN

PROBABLY FRENCH, CIRCA 1550-1560

the reverse decorated in translucent enamel with a foliate landscape below and clouds above and inscribed 'CELVM. ET TERRAM'; the enameled gold border with a Baroque pearl pendant probably late 19th century

1 2/3 in. (4.2 cm.) diameter, the cameo

3 ½ in. (8.5 cm.) high, overall





Provenance

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

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the Fumoir sur la cour, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France after May 1940 (ERR no. R 2362).

Transferred to Germany.

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 1371/12).

Returned to 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 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Entresol, ‘Bijou camée, Cavalier XVIe siècle - 500 francs’).

Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, Munich/New York, 1979, p. 70, fig. 156.
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