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POSSIBLY SOUTH ITALY, 19TH CENTURY
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A CONTINENTAL GOLD AND ENAMEL PENDANT IN THE FORM OF A NEF
POSSIBLY SOUTH ITALY, 19TH CENTURY
Renaissance style, shaped as a three mast galleon with furled sails, the hull applied with gold thread, flowers and scrolls enameled in white, green and blue, the stern applied with a metal plaque enameled in black with the initials S.M.M, the gunport fitted with four canons, with suspension chain and ring
4 in. (10 cm.) high, over suspension ring
1 oz. (32 gr.) gross weight
POSSIBLY SOUTH ITALY, 19TH CENTURY
Renaissance style, shaped as a three mast galleon with furled sails, the hull applied with gold thread, flowers and scrolls enameled in white, green and blue, the stern applied with a metal plaque enameled in black with the initials S.M.M, the gunport fitted with four canons, with suspension chain and ring
4 in. (10 cm.) high, over suspension ring
1 oz. (32 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in Fumoir 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 2448).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 1170), and
transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/57).
Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in Fumoir 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 2448).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 1170), and
transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/57).
Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905, 000/1037/01(hôtel Saint-Florentin, Entresol: 'Vaisseau XVIe siècle, voiles émaillées et déployées, estimé mille francs').