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A GERMAN RENAISSANCE STYLE GOLD-MOUNTED AND ENAMELED HARDSTONE SPOON

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Lot 119 | A GERMAN RENAISSANCE STYLE GOLD-MOUNTED AND ENAMELED HARDSTONE SPOON
A GERMAN RENAISSANCE STYLE GOLD-MOUNTED AND ENAMELED HARDSTONE SPOON

BY REINHOLD VASTERS, AACHEN, CIRCA 1870

The handle and bowl of striated red agate, the mount at junction of bowl and handle figuring a satyr and a grotesque masks framed by scrolls enameled in white, red, blue, and green, and applied with a rubies and a cabochon emerald, the long thin agate handle of square section framed by white enameled gold mounts and applied in the center with four ruby and emerald cabochons and foliate motifs, the openwork spherical terminal of the stem with red enameled scrolls applied with alternating ruby and emerald and pearl cabochons, with ball finial

8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) long





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 2509).

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 (MCCP no. 1371/91).

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: 'Cuillère agathe – le manche émaillé XVIe siècle, estimée cinq cent francs').

Y. Hackenbroch, Reinhold Vasters, Goldsmith, Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, vol. 19/20, New York, 1986.

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 Sein Zeichnungkonvolut im Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Doctoral Dissertation, unpublished, University of Trier, 2003, p.539, BS3.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1919, London: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921: E.3082-1919 and E.3085-1919, presented by L. M. Lowenstein, Esq.
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