ID 1027552 
Lot 208  | A HEXAGONAL LIMOGES ENAMEL SALT CELLAR DEPICTING THE LABORS OF HERCULES
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000 
THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt polychrome enamel with later silver-gilt mounts; the sides inscribed with descriptions of the six scenes; the top and underside with the profiles of man and woman
4 in. (10 cm.) high
3 ½ in. (8.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Probably Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the Fumoir sur la cour in the hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of Paris in May 1940 (ERR no. R 3881).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 190/14), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 196/14).
Returned to France on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
S. Baratte, Les émaux peints de Limoges, Paris, 2000, pp.260-261 and 266-269.
Exhibited
Probably Paris, Palais de l'industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, Union centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'industrie, 10 August-10 October 1865, p. 228, no. 2594.
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Plastic | 
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| Art style: | Renaissance | 
| Genre: | Mythological painting | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects | 
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Plastic | 
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| Art style: | Renaissance | 
| Genre: | Mythological painting | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects | 
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