ID 1027538
Lot 105 | A CONTINENTAL JEWELED ENAMELED GOLD AND SILVER-GILT PENDANT
Estimate value
$ 4 000 – 6 000
POSSIBLY AUSTRIA, BY SIMON GRUNWALD, VIENNA, CIRCA 1870; THE FRAME AND SUSPENSION ELEMENT BY ALFRED ANDRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1880
Renaissance style, of oval shape figuring a knight fighting a chimera, applied with three semi-precious cushion shape stones, the scene framed by a garland of fruits, flowers and foliage interspersed with rubies in enameled scrolls, held by three jeweled and enameled chains with pearls with central suspension ring, two pearl pendants (one missing), the reverse plaque enameled with a stag chased by a dog in foliate arabesques
4 1/8 in. (10.2 cm.) high
1 oz. 14 dwt. (53 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 2495).
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. 1371/29).
Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, Munich, 1979, p. 58, illustrated p. 67 and plate VI.
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Gold, Plastic |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Gold, Plastic |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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