A LIMOGES ENAMEL SALT CELLAR

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12.10.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1027511
Lot 173 | A LIMOGES ENAMEL SALT CELLAR
A LIMOGES ENAMEL SALT CELLAR

SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

parcel-gilt grisaille enamel with silvered and gilt bronze and metal elements to the stem; elements associated and later; with the profile of a man to the top and decorated with cherubs and mythological figures; the foot with a paper label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R. / 351' to the underside

6 2/3 in. (16.8 cm.) high

3 ½ in. (8.7 cm.) diam.





Provenance

Possibly Joseph Fau.

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 3906).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 324/38), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 398/38).

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

By descent to the present owners.



Exhibited

Probably Paris, Palais de l'industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, Union centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'industrie, 10 August-10 October 1865, no. 2591.
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