A CONTINENTAL JEWELED AND ENAMELED GOLD PENDANT OF JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES

Lot 103
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 103 | A CONTINENTAL JEWELED AND ENAMELED GOLD PENDANT OF JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES
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$ 15 000 – 20 000
A CONTINENTAL JEWELED AND ENAMELED GOLD PENDANT OF JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES

POSSIBLY SOUTH GERMANY, LATE 16TH CENTURY; WITH 19TH CENTURY ELEMENTS

Figuring Judith holding Holofernes' head and a maid holding a bag, both on a moveable seesaw centered by a ruby and fixed on demi-lune plinth enameled in blue on underside and set in the front with a row of rubies and a diamond, above a jeweled canopy flanked by griffons, applied on each both side with an enameled monster and below with a flowerhead set with ruby and diamonds framed by flowers and scrolls, with suspension ring and three pendant pearls, the canopy centered by gold scroll resembling the initial H on white enamel

3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high

2 oz. 4 dwt. (69 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 no. R 2498).

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. 1371/32).

Returned to France on 11 July 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: 'Bijou Judith et Holofernes, or émaillé, XVIe siècle, estimé quinze mille francs').
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