A CONTINENTAL ENAMELED GOLD BELT PENDANT

Lot 102
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1027551
Lot 102 | A CONTINENTAL ENAMELED GOLD BELT PENDANT
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$ 7 000 – 10 000
A CONTINENTAL ENAMELED GOLD BELT PENDANT

POSSIBLY SOUTH GERMAN, CIRCA 1870, IN THE MANNER OF REINHOLD VASTERS

Renaissance style, of baluster shape with gadrooned mid-rib, formed of openwork scrolls, the upper portion with strawberries and flowers enameled in white, green and cornflower blue and buttressed by three large double scrolls, the lower body with flowers, branches and scrolls, and with suspension ring and pendant pearl

3 ¼ in. (8.2 cm.) high

1 oz. 15 dwt. (55 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 2573).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 266/81).

Returned to France on 25 June 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, New York 1979, p. 187-188, ill. 509 and 511A.

Dr. M Krautwurst, Ein niederrheinischer Goldschmied des 19. Jahrhunderts in der Tradition alter Meister. Sein Zeichnungkonvolut im Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Doctoral Dissertation, unpublished, University of Trier, 2003, p. 224, A41 and p. 226, A42.

A. Somers Cocks and C. Truman, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Renaissance jewels, gold boxes and object of vertu, London, 1984, p. 114 and 115.
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