ID 1027536
Lot 111 | A SILVER-GILT AND POLYCHROME ENAMEL-MOUNTED GLASS CHARGER
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
BY REINHOLD VASTERS (ERKELENZ 1827-1909 AACHEN), VIENNA, CIRCA 1860-1880
the glass panels engraved with Renaissance Revival motifs
17 x 18 ½ in. (43.5 x 47 cm.)
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 4852).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 3 September 1945 (MCCP no. 7947).
Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Y. Hackenbroch, 'Reinhold Vasters, Goldsmith', The Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, 1986, p. 207, fig. 85.
M. Krautwurst, Reinhold Vasters – ein niederrheinischer Goldschmied des 19. Jahrhunderts in der Tradition alter Meister. Sein Zeichnungskonvolut im Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Trier, 2003, p. 496, fig. 1 and 2.
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Crystal, Enamel, Glass, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Austria, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Plates |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Crystal, Enamel, Glass, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Austria, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Plates |
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