ID 1027577
Lot 180 | AN ENAMEL EWER
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
VENICE, CIRCA 1500
parcel-gilt polychrome enamel, with a paper label near the rim inscribed 'E 60', the foot with paper labels inscribed 'P. 48 / 223', 'T 4', 'G.Chena?' and '475?' to the underside
7 ½ in. (19.2 cm.) high; 8 in. (20.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the Fumoir sur la cour of the 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 3803).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 398/1).
Returned to France on 23 May 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, ‘Aiguière - Venise - 300 francs’).
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
F. Barbe, L. Caselli, M-E. Dantan, eds., Les Cuivres émaillés dits vénitiens de la Renaissance italienne. Corpus des œuvres en collections publiques et privées, vol. II, Milan, 2019, pp. 64-65, 157-158, no. 207 to 213.
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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