ID 1027509
Lot 210 | A HEXAGONAL LIMOGES ENAMEL SALT CELLAR DEPICTING THE WEAKNESS OF MAN
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000
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.
| Artist: | Pierre Reymond (1513 - 1584) |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Plastic |
| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Artist: | Pierre Reymond (1513 - 1584) |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Plastic |
| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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