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A LIMOGES ENAMEL COVERED TAZZA DEPICTING THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS AND A SCENE FROM THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN III PÉNICAUD, AFTER RAPHAEL, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt grisaille enamel; the underside of the cover depicting four profiles; the foot with coat of arms; the underside of the foot with two paper labels inscribed 'P.48 / E. de R. / 239' and '729'
8 in. (21 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the 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 3825).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 196/6).
Returned to France on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
S. Baratte, Les émaux peints de Limoges, Paris, 2000, pp.163-8.
Exhibited
Paris, Palais de l'industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, Union centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'industrie, 10 August-10 October 1865, no. 2447.
Details
A LIMOGES ENAMEL COVERED TAZZA DEPICTING THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS AND A SCENE FROM THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN III PÉNICAUD, AFTER RAPHAEL, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt grisaille enamel; the underside of the cover depicting four profiles; the foot with coat of arms; the underside of the foot with two paper labels inscribed 'P.48 / E. de R. / 239' and '729'
8 in. (21 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the 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 3825).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 196/6).
Returned to France on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
S. Baratte, Les émaux peints de Limoges, Paris, 2000, pp.163-8.
Exhibited
Paris, Palais de l'industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, Union centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'industrie, 10 August-10 October 1865, no. 2447.
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