A RENAISSANCE DIAMOND AND RUBY-MOUNTED ENAMELED GOLD BADGE - photo 1
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A RENAISSANCE DIAMOND AND RUBY-MOUNTED ENAMELED GOLD BADGE

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11.10.2023 18:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1027476
Lot 4 | A RENAISSANCE DIAMOND AND RUBY-MOUNTED ENAMELED GOLD BADGE
A RENAISSANCE DIAMOND AND RUBY-MOUNTED ENAMELED GOLD BADGE

FRANCE OR ENGLAND, 15TH CENTURY

Of oval form, the frame formed of foliate Gothic scrolls applied on the front with three enameled daisies and six cabochon rubies below a crown set with diamonds, the center with a white-enameled swan with outstretched wings and gorged with a coronet, with three suspension rings on the reverse

3 1/8 in. (80 mm.) high

2 oz. 5 dwt. (70 gr.) gross weight





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in Fumoir sur la cour, 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 2474).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/80).

Returned to France on 11 July 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, Entresol: 'OIseau dans un nid émaillé orné de rubis, XVIe siècle, estimé trois mille francs').



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

A. R. Wagner, The Swan Badge and the Swan Knight, Archaeologia, 97, 1959.

R. Marks and P. Williamson, Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547. London, 2003, p. 203.

D. Thornton, A Rothschild Renaissance, Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest, London, 2005, The Holy Thorn Reliquary, p.75-87.
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