ID 1027572
Lot 211 | A LIMOGES ENAMEL CASKET
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
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.
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Gold, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Gold, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Address of auction |
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