ID 1027617
Lot 178 | A LIMOGES ENAMEL FOOTED PLATE
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 50 000
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN DE COURT, MASTER IC OR JEAN COURTOIS (C.1530-1584), LIMOGES, LATE 16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt polychrome enamel; depicting a procession of the gods surrounded by masks and cherubs among strapwork and foliage; the underside with fantastical winged figures and masks; the underside with a paper label inscribed 'Einsatzstab RR / R 3899 / Nr. 556'
11 in. (28 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the Boudoir vert 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 3899).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 190/23), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 196/23).
Returned to France on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
S. L. Caroselli, The Painted Enamels of Limoges, Los Angeles, 1993, pp. 156-173.
S. Baratte, Les émaux peints de Limoges, Paris, 2000, pp. 317 and 350-357.
S. Higgott, The Wallace Collection – Catalogue of Glass and Limoges Painted Enamels, London, 2011, pp 284-290.
| 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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