ID 1027452
Lot 3 | A RENAISSANCE SARDONYX CAMEO REPRESENTING KING PHILIP II OF SPAIN AND HIS WIFE, MARIA OF PORTUGAL
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
ITALIAN OR SPANISH, CIRCA 1545-1550
With a later enameled gold mount with a pendant pearl attributed to Maison André and a later hinged reverse, the interior inscribed in black e.2451 and with a paper label inscribed G47, apparently unmarked
1 2/3 in. (4.3 cm.) high, the stone
4 in. (9.7 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France after May 1940 (ERR no. R 2451).
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. 1371/54).
Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, Munich/New York, 1979, pp. 317-318, fig. 826.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
K. Piacenti and J. Boardman, Ancient and Modern Gems and Jewels in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 2008, no. 214.
| Medium: | Achat, Acrylic glass, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe, Spain |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Achat, Acrylic glass, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe, Spain |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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