ID 1027597
Lot 206 | A LIMOGES ENAMEL EWER DEPICTING MARS AND JUNO IN PROCESSION
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 40 000
BY PIERRE REYMOND (C.1513-1584), MID-16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt grisaille enamel; the scenes inscribed with the names of the gods 'MARS' and 'IVNE'; the lower section and foot decorated with cherub masks; the underside signed 'P.R.' and with a paper label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R. / 241'
7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high
4 ½ in. (11 cm.) diam.
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 cour, 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 3872).
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. 398/25).
Returned to France on 23 May 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
E. Saint-Raymond, 'Exposition historique de l'art ancien. Les grandes collections au Trocadéro. Collections de MM. les barons de Rothschild', in L'Art, 1878, vol. 4, p. 26.
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, ‘Aiguillere [sic], émaillé en grisaille, Mars précédant un char - P. Reymond - 500 francs’).
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
A.-R. de Liesville, 'L'exposition historique de l'art ancien. Coup d'oeil général', in L'art ancien à l'Exposition de 1878, Paris, 1879, p. 8.
S. Baratte, Les émaux peints de Limoges, Paris, 2000, p. 273.
Exhibited
Paris, Palais du Trocadéro, Exposition rétrospective also named Exposition historique de l'art ancien, during the Exposition universelle, 1st May-31st October 1878.
| Artist: | Pierre Reymond (1513 - 1584) |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Plastic |
| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Genre: | Mythological painting |
| 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 |
| Genre: | Mythological painting |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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