A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV ORMOLU CHENETS

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£ 30 000
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21.09.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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ID 812934
Lot 12 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV ORMOLU CHENETS
A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV ORMOLU CHENETS

CIRCA 1700

Each surmounted with a flambé finial, with three female masks between foliate cartouches enclosing portrait medallions on a spreading base with bellflower motif on scrolling feet

13 in. (33 cm.) high; 7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) wide





Provenance

Baron Maurice de Rothschild (1881-1957), son of Edmond de Rothschild, in his castle of Armainvilliers or in his Parisian mansion located at 41 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré;

Confiscated from Maurice de Rothschild's depot at Bedel et Cie., 194, rue de Championnet, Paris, following the Nazi occupation of Paris by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg after May 1940 and transferred to the Jeu de Paume (ERR no. R 1501 a, b).

Sent to the Buxheim art repository, Bavaria on 19 September 1942;

Recovered by the Allies in 1945, then repatriated to Paris and returned to the Rothschilds.

The collection of Pierre Bordeaux-Groult (1916-2007), grandson of Camille Groult; Mes Ader, Picard and Tajan sale; Palais d´Orsay, Paris, 14 December 1979, lot 85.





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