Lot Essay
A salt cellar with similar scenes was part of the Pierre Révoil collection and is now in the Musée du Louvre (inv. MRR 154).
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BY PIERRE REYMOND (C.1513-1584), MID 16TH CENTURY
Details
A HEXAGONAL LIMOGES ENAMEL SALT CELLAR DEPICTING THE WEAKNESS OF MAN
BY PIERRE REYMOND (C.1513-1584), MID 16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt grisaille enamel; the top and underside with portrait busts of a man and woman and scrolling foliage borders; the scene depicting Solomon's Idolatry signed 'P.R.'; the underside with three paper labels inscribed '444', 'Einsatzstab RR / 4417? / R3880/ Nr. 442' and the third indistinctly inscribed
3 in. (8 cm.) high
3 ¾ in. (9.4 cm.) diam.
BY PIERRE REYMOND (C.1513-1584), MID 16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt grisaille enamel; the top and underside with portrait busts of a man and woman and scrolling foliage borders; the scene depicting Solomon's Idolatry signed 'P.R.'; the underside with three paper labels inscribed '444', 'Einsatzstab RR / 4417? / R3880/ Nr. 442' and the third indistinctly inscribed
3 in. (8 cm.) high
3 ¾ in. (9.4 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 3880).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 26 June 1945 (MCCP no. 347/22).
Returned to France on 25 June 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 3880).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 26 June 1945 (MCCP no. 347/22).
Returned to France on 25 June 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.