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ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF COLIN NOUAILHER (ACTIVE 1539-1570), MID-16TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF HEXAGONAL SALT CELLARS DEPICTING THE PROFILES OF NOBLEMEN AND WOMEN
ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF COLIN NOUAILHER (ACTIVE 1539-1570), MID-16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt polychrome and grisaille enamel; with later silver mounts depicting dolphins; the underside of each with a paper label inscribed 'P.48 / E. de R. / 196' and 'P.48 / E. de R. / 197', respectively
3 ½ in. (9 cm.) high, each
5 ¼ in. (13.2 cm.) diam., each
ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF COLIN NOUAILHER (ACTIVE 1539-1570), MID-16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt polychrome and grisaille enamel; with later silver mounts depicting dolphins; the underside of each with a paper label inscribed 'P.48 / E. de R. / 196' and 'P.48 / E. de R. / 197', respectively
3 ½ in. (9 cm.) high, each
5 ¼ in. (13.2 cm.) diam., each
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the Fumoir sur la cour in the 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 3911 and R 3912).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 190/26), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 196/26).
Returned to France on 31 July 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 3911 and R 3912).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 190/26), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 196/26).
Returned to France on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.