A LIMOGES ENAMEL CASKET

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$ 20 000
Auction dateClassic
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 1027572
Lot 211 | A LIMOGES ENAMEL CASKET
A LIMOGES ENAMEL CASKET

CIRCLE OF JEAN III PÉNICAUD, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

parcel-gilt grisaille enamel; with a larger plaque to the lid depicting Christ Teaching in the Temple surrounded by four enamel borders and four biblical scenes around the sides; the mounts silver-gilt and with Solomonic columns to each of the four corners

3 x 4 ½ x 3 ¼ in. (7.1 x 11 x 8 cm.)





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 3929).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 324/49), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 398/49).

Returned to France on 23 May 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.
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