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A HEXAGONAL LIMOGES ENAMEL SALT CELLAR DEPICTING THE WEAKNESS OF MAN

Lot 210
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 11 970
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027509
Lot 210 | A HEXAGONAL LIMOGES ENAMEL SALT CELLAR DEPICTING THE WEAKNESS OF MAN
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000
A HEXAGONAL LIMOGES ENAMEL SALT CELLAR DEPICTING THE WEAKNESS OF MAN

BY PIERRE REYMOND (C.1513-1584), MID 16TH CENTURY

parcel-gilt grisaille enamel; the top and underside with portrait busts of a man and woman and scrolling foliage borders; the scene depicting Solomon's Idolatry signed 'P.R.'; the underside with three paper labels inscribed '444', 'Einsatzstab RR / 4417? / R3880/ Nr. 442' and the third indistinctly inscribed

3 in. (8 cm.) high

3 ¾ in. (9.4 cm.) diam.





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 3880).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 26 June 1945 (MCCP no. 347/22).

Returned to France on 25 June 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.
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