A CENTRAL EUROPEAN GOLD-PAINTED MIRROR

19TH CENTURY

Details

A CENTRAL EUROPEAN GOLD-PAINTED MIRROR
19TH CENTURY
With shaped beveled plate within a scrolling frame headed by mask cresting, the reverse with French export stamp and paper label inscribed Schloss Schillersdorf and 2443
43 in. (109 cm.) high, 29 in. (73.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Probably Albert de Rothschild (1844-1911).
Schloss Schillersdorf, Germany (now Czech Republic).
Acquired from Georges de Batz, New York, in 1959.
Eugenia Woodward Hitt Collection.

Lot Essay

This mirror has label for Schloss Schillersdorf, the vast hunting estate in Silesia of the Austrian Rothschilds. It was purchased by Salomon de Rothschild (d.1911) in 1843 shortly after he was made a citizen of Vienna. His sons, Baron Alphonse (1878-1942) and Baron Louis Nathaniel (1882-1995) continued to use it, especially Louis Nathaniel, who was a renowned sportsman. It was confiscated first by the Nazis and then after World War II by the communist Czechoslovakian government, which converted it to a hotel training center which it remains today.

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