TWO SPANISH JEWELLED SILVER-GILT FIGURES OF MARY MAGDALENE AND SAINT CATHERINE

Lot 135
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Lot 135 | TWO SPANISH JEWELLED SILVER-GILT FIGURES OF MARY MAGDALENE AND SAINT CATHERINE
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$ 15 000 – 25 000
TWO SPANISH JEWELLED SILVER-GILT FIGURES OF MARY MAGDALENE AND SAINT CATHERINE

WITH MAKER'S MARK ONLY IC WITH FLEUR-DE-LYS IN BEWTEEN, 19TH CENTURY

Each on octagonal plinth engraved with foliage on textured ground and inscribed CAPILLA DEL REY CASTO OVIEDO, the standing figures with draping robes chased and etched with foliate pattern, Mary Magdalena holding her lamp, Saint Catherine holding her attributes, a book, a sword and a broken wheel resting by her side, marked on plinths and on base of robes

22 5/8 in. (57.5 cm.) high, Mary Magdalene; 23 ½ in. (59.5 cm.) high, Saint Catherine

89 oz. 7 dwt. (2,780 gr.) gross weight, Mary Magdalene; 109 oz.12 dwt. (3,410 gr.) gross weight, Saint Catherine





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Château de Ferrières.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 262 and 263).

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, Orfèvrerie 'Statuette en argent doré Sainte Anne estimée la somme de mille francs' and 'Une statuette en argent doré Ste Catherine estimée la somme de mille francs'.

Plaisirs de France, December 1969, p. 72 show Saint Catherine in the 'Chambre dite au Balcon'.
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