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A LOBED LIMOGES ENAMEL TAZZA DEPICTING EIGHT OF THE TWELVE LABORS OF HERCULES
THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt polychrome and grisaille enamel; the foot possibly associated; the underside with eight profiles of men and women; the underside of the foot with two paper labels inscribed 'Einsatzstab RR / Nr. R3914' and 'Kastem[?] / R 38 / Foto'
2 2/3 in. (6.8 cm.) high
8 ¾ in. (22.3 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation in France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 3914).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 190/27), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 196/27).
Returned to France on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Details
A LOBED LIMOGES ENAMEL TAZZA DEPICTING EIGHT OF THE TWELVE LABORS OF HERCULES
THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt polychrome and grisaille enamel; the foot possibly associated; the underside with eight profiles of men and women; the underside of the foot with two paper labels inscribed 'Einsatzstab RR / Nr. R3914' and 'Kastem[?] / R 38 / Foto'
2 2/3 in. (6.8 cm.) high
8 ¾ in. (22.3 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation in France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 3914).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 190/27), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 196/27).
Returned to France on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
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