ID 1027641
Lot 187 | A PAIR OF LIMOGES ENAMEL SALT CELLARS
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
BY THE MASTER IC OR JEAN DE COURT OR JEAN COURTOIS, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt polychrome enamel; with the profiles of a man and a woman to the top and richly decorated with masks, cherubs and mythological figures; each signed 'IC' to the underside of the foot; the foot of one cellar with a paper label inscribed 'E3'
5 ½ in. (14 cm.) high
3 ½ in. (9 cm.) diam.
Provenance
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 3902 and R 3903).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 324/36), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 398/36).
Returned to France on 23 May 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
P. Verdier, Enamels, rugs and silver in the Frick Collection, vol. 8, New York, 1977, pp. 212-215.
| 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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