LOT DETAILS

Materials:

enameled and gold-mounted grey chalcedony

Size Notes:

overall

Description:

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Literature:

F. Rossi, Italian Jewelled Arts , London, 1957, pl. LXXII

Provenance:

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris. Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris. Confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of Paris by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg after May 1940 and transferred to the Jeu de Paume (ERR no. R 3588). Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section and transferred to the Central Collecting Point, Munich, September 3, 1945 (MCCP no. 7945/6). Repatriated to France July 11, 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild Collection. Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild (1914-1999), Tel Aviv, sold Christie's, London, 14 December 2000, lot 65. Rothschild inventory no. E. de R. 675