ID 1027629
Lot 104 | THREE CONTINENTAL JEWELED AND ENAMELED GOLD ELEMENTS OF A NECKLACE OR A BELT
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
BY ALFRED ANDRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1880
Renaissance style, comprising three detachable elements: two shaped circular centered by a cupid and one shaped rectangular centered by a muse, all within an openwork scrollwork enameled in white, red, green and turquoise and applied with diamond cabochons, both side elements with two rings, the central one fitted with two hooks and an emerald pendant, all the back plates pierced with scrolls and applied with a green enameled band
5 ¼ in. (13.4 cm.) long
4 oz. 3 dwt. (136 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in 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 nos. R 2491 and R 2452 a & b).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1945 (MCCP nos. 1371/25, 1371/51 and 1371/52).
Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Inventaire après le décès de Mr le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, 16 Octobre 1905, Rothschild Archives 00/1037/01: 'Agrafe XVIe siècle en trois médaillions émaillés, un sujet sur plaque médaillon, estimée la somme de quinze mille francs.'
Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, Munich, 1979, p. 189, illustrated in colour plate XXI.
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Diamonds, Enamel, Gold, Precious stones, Plastic |
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Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Diamonds, Enamel, Gold, Precious stones, Plastic |
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Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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