ID 1027599
Lot 106 | A SMALL ENAMELED GOLD AND HARDSTONE MIRROR
Estimate value
$ 3 000 – 5 000
THE ROCK CRYSTAL BACK PANEL, EARLY 17TH CENTURY; THE FRAME, BY ALFRED ANDRE, PARIS, 19TH CENTURY
Octagonal shape, the gold frame enameled with red cabochons emulating rubies and green trefoil on white enameled ground and applied on the outside with enameled scrolls, the rock crystal back panel reverse painted with grotesques figuring two parrots flanking a vase of flowers underneath a canopy and framed by scrolls and exotic birds on gold ground, with suspension ring and later mirror
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) wide
2 oz. 6 dwt. (71 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in Fumoir de la rue de Rivoli, 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 2466).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 1170),
and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/72).
Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Glass, Gold, Plastic |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe, Spain |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Glass, Gold, Plastic |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe, Spain |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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