ID 1027513
Lot 116 | AN ONYX AJOUREE PROFILE RELIEF, POSSIBLY OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
the carved white agate fixed to the oval agate background, with an enameled gold mount attributed to Maison André, and a hanging pendant pearl
3 1/3 in. (8.6 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the 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 2455).
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. 1371/49).
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, p. 84, fig. 208.
| Medium: | Achat, Acrylic glass, Enamel, Gold, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Achat, Acrylic glass, Enamel, Gold, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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