ID 1027727
Lot 384 | A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARIS PORCELAIN EWERS
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
CIRCA 1820
The pink porcelain body of ovoid form mounted with floral swags, the handles surmounted by putti playing music emerging from acanthus leaves, the spout terminating in a zoomorphic mask, on a beaded spirally-fluted socle on a leaftip-cast square base, each base numbered '44' and with fleur-de-lys over an 'L'
19 in. (48 cm.) high, 8 in. (20 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Salon Vert, 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 4482 a & b).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1226).
Returned to France on 2 March 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Salon Vert (‘Deux grandes buires, porcelaine rose, montée bronze doré- amours sur les anses bronze, estimées cinq cent francs’).
| Applied technique: | Ormolu, Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Gold, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Bourbon Restoration in France |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Vases and vessels |
| Applied technique: | Ormolu, Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Gold, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Bourbon Restoration in France |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Vases and vessels |
| Address of auction |
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