A CONTINENTAL GOLD AND ENAMEL PENDANT IN THE FORM OF A NEF

Sold
$ 5 670
Auction dateClassic
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
USA, New York
Archive
The auction is completed. No bids can be placed anymore.
Archive
ID 1027648
Lot 121 | A CONTINENTAL GOLD AND ENAMEL PENDANT IN THE FORM OF A NEF
A CONTINENTAL GOLD AND ENAMEL PENDANT IN THE FORM OF A NEF

POSSIBLY SOUTH ITALY, 19TH CENTURY

Renaissance style, shaped as a three mast galleon with furled sails, the hull applied with gold thread, flowers and scrolls enameled in white, green and blue, the stern applied with a metal plaque enameled in black with the initials S.M.M, the gunport fitted with four canons, with suspension chain and ring

4 in. (10 cm.) high, over suspension ring

1 oz. (32 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 2448).

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. 1371/57).

Returned to France on 11 July 1946 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, 000/1037/01(hôtel Saint-Florentin, Entresol: 'Vaisseau XVIe siècle, voiles émaillées et déployées, estimé mille francs').
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
20 Rockefeller Plaza
10020 New York
USA
Preview
07.10.2023 10:00 – 17:00
08.10.2023 13:00 – 17:00
09.10.2023 10:00 – 17:00
10.10.2023 10:00 – 17:00
11.10.2023 10:00 – 17:00
Phone +1 212 636 2000
Fax +1 212 636 4930
Email
Conditions of purchaseConditions of purchase
Shipping Postal service
Courier service
pickup by yourself
Payment methods Wire Transfer
Business hoursBusiness hours
Mo 09:30 – 17:00   
Tu 09:30 – 17:00   
We 09:30 – 17:00   
Th 09:30 – 17:00   
Fr 09:30 – 17:00   
Sa closed
Su closed

Related terms