ID 1027650
Lot 101 | A FRENCH ENAMELED GOLD PENDANT MIRROR
Estimate value
$ 7 000 – 10 000
BY ALFRED ANDRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1870
Renaissance style, oval the back enameled in opaque brown with openwork backplate and sides figuring scrolls enameled in white, green, blue and orange, the front with mirror, with suspension ring
4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) high
2 oz. 11 dwt. (80 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 2477).
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. 1371/83).
Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
A. Kugel, R. Distelberger and M. Bimbenet-Privat, Joyaux Renaissance, Une Splendeur Retrouvée, Paris, 2000, Annexe, plate XIII a.
| 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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