A LIMOGES ENAMEL COVERED TAZZA DEPICTING A BACCHIC PROCESSION

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Lot 6 | A LIMOGES ENAMEL COVERED TAZZA DEPICTING A BACCHIC PROCESSION
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A LIMOGES ENAMEL COVERED TAZZA DEPICTING A BACCHIC PROCESSION

BY PIERRE REYMOND (C.1513-1584), SIGNED 'PR' AND DATED 1553

Parcel-gilt grisaille enamel; surmounted with a gilt metal and silver finial in the form of the young Bacchus; the Bacchic scene on the cover after a drawing by Jaques Androuet du Cerceau (1520-1586); the underside of the cover with four portrait medallions and a paper label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R. /336B'; the interior of the cup with figures and a satyr drinking wine signed ‘P.R’; the interior of the cup and foot both with a coat of arms inscribed with the motto ‘MIEVLX LOING QVE PRES’ (better far than near); the foot signed 'P.R' and dated '1553' and with a paper label inscribed 'E 80'; the underside of the foot with fleurs-de-lys and a paper label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R. / 336B'

10 7/8 (27.5 cm) high, overall





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the Fumoir sur la rue de Rivoli, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 3875).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 398/27).

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

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Catalogue de la collection formée par M. Didier Petit, à Lyon, consistant en émaux..., Paris, 1843, p. 14, no. 103.

J. S. Gardner and A. Higgins, Illustrated Catalogue of European Enamels, London, 1897, pp. 44-45, no. 157, pls. XLII, XLIII, XLIV

A. and N. Kugel, Émaux de Limoges de la Renaissance provenant de la collection de M. Hubert de Givenchy, Paris, 1994, no. 2, pp. 20-25.

V. Notin, ed., La rencontre des héros, Limoges, 2002, no. 31, pp. 118-121.

M. Blanc, ed., Émaux peints de Limoges. XVe-XVIIIe siècles. La collection du musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 2011, no. 19, pp. 118-121.



The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Entresol, ‘Grande coupe, émail en grisaille - Baccus & son cortège - 2,000 francs’).
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