ID 1027565
Lot 185 | A PAIR OF LIMOGES ENAMEL SALT CELLARS
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt grisaille enamel; each depicting marine mythological figures on the stem and scenes from Parnassus on the foot; one with the portrait bust of a man and the other with a woman; the undersides each with paper labels inscribed '679 / Foto', 'P. 48 / E. de R. / 169' and '[?] Foto', 'P. 48 / E. de R. / 168', 'E 22'.
4 ¾ in. (12 cm.) high, each
3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm.) diam., each
Provenance
Collection Künegg.
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 3878 and R 3879).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 190/13), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 196/13).
Returned to France on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
| 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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