ID 1027592
Lot 163 | A GERMAN GOTHIC-STYLE PARCEL-GILT SILVER COLUMBINE OR AKELEIFORM CUP AND COVER
Estimate value
$ 3 000 – 5 000
THE COVER POSSIBLY 16TH CENTURY; THE BODY BY REINHOLD VASTERS, AACHEN, CIRCA 1880
Lobed trumpet-form on three feet cast as bears standing on trefoil plinths, the lower body applied with a crown of thorns, the cover bordered by an applied frieze of pierced foliate scrolls, the tapering finial with bud terminal and scrolling foliage, apparently unmarked
16 in. (41 cm.) high
32 oz. (996 gr.)
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 2930).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany.
Returned directly from the above to France on 18 October 1945 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
| Artist: | Reinhold Vasters (1827 - 1909) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Category: | Cups |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Artist: | Reinhold Vasters (1827 - 1909) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Category: | Cups |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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