Details
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED NAUTILUS CUP
17TH AND 19TH CENTURY, WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THOSE OF MELCHIOR BAIR, AUGSBURG
On a domed base chased with sea-monsters in surf, the stem cast as Neptune sitting astride a seahorse atop a sea serpent and holding the nautilus above his head, the side straps cast and chased as caryatids, the back strap cast and chased as a winged caryatids and applied with a lion’s head, the front strap as a double-headed eagle, the rim engraved with nautical creatures, the finial formed as a man seated upon a tortoise, marked on foot-rim
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high
18 oz. 4 dwt. (567 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in Boudoir vert 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 2982).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany.
Returned directly from the above to France on 19 October 1945 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
C. Frégnac and W. Andrews, The Great Houses of Paris, London, 1979, p. 79, illustrated in situ, p. 80.
Details
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED NAUTILUS CUP
17TH AND 19TH CENTURY, WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THOSE OF MELCHIOR BAIR, AUGSBURG
On a domed base chased with sea-monsters in surf, the stem cast as Neptune sitting astride a seahorse atop a sea serpent and holding the nautilus above his head, the side straps cast and chased as caryatids, the back strap cast and chased as a winged caryatids and applied with a lion’s head, the front strap as a double-headed eagle, the rim engraved with nautical creatures, the finial formed as a man seated upon a tortoise, marked on foot-rim
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high
18 oz. 4 dwt. (567 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in Boudoir vert 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 2982).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany.
Returned directly from the above to France on 19 October 1945 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
C. Frégnac and W. Andrews, The Great Houses of Paris, London, 1979, p. 79, illustrated in situ, p. 80.
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