LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Parcel-gilt grisaille enamel

Size Notes:

diameter

Markings:

the underside of the foot with a red seal and paper labels inscribed 'UNION/ �/ CENTRALE', 'R', one label inscribed 'G/ H.60.' and 'F 32'

Exhibited:

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Exposition de 1865, Musée Rétrospectif, no. 2535.

Literature:

The Rothschild Archive, London - Inventaire après le Décès de Monsieur le Baron Gustave de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 26 April-10 June 1912, no. 429, 2000 francs (Hôtel de Marigny, Galerie, 'Vitrine a gauche de la porte'). P. Verdier, The Walters Art Gallery - Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance, Baltimore, 1967, no. 136, pp. 217-259. S. Baratte, Les Emaux Peints de Limoges, Paris, 2000, pp. 186-273.

Provenance:

Baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829-1911), and by descent to Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt. (1888-1939); sold Christie's, London, The Property of Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., M.P., C.M.G., and the Countess of Rocksavage, of 25 Park Lane, 26 November 1919, lot 70, acquired through J. Seligmann & Cie, 12 December 1919 (£199.10). Rothschild collection, and by descent.