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ITALIAN, PROBABLY MILANESE, CIRCA 1550-1570
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AN ONYX CAMEO REPRESENTING CLEOPATRA
ITALIAN, PROBABLY MILANESE, CIRCA 1550-1570
in a later enameled gold mount with rubies, diamonds and an emerald and pendant pearl by Maison André
1 ½ in. (3.8 cm.) high; 4 in. (10.3 cm.) high, overall
ITALIAN, PROBABLY MILANESE, CIRCA 1550-1570
in a later enameled gold mount with rubies, diamonds and an emerald and pendant pearl by Maison André
1 ½ in. (3.8 cm.) high; 4 in. (10.3 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the 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 2361).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/2).
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 the 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 2361).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/2).
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 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Entresol, ‘Medaillon cintré XVIe siècle, orné de rubis et saphirs au centre camée Cléopatre & le Lespreux - 5,000 francs’).
Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, Munich/New York, 1979, p. 41, pl. IV, fig. 80A.
J. Kugel, Joyaux Renaissance. Une splendeur retrouvée, Paris, 2000, pl. X, fig. b.
Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, Munich/New York, 1979, p. 41, pl. IV, fig. 80A.
J. Kugel, Joyaux Renaissance. Une splendeur retrouvée, Paris, 2000, pl. X, fig. b.