Details
The models after designs by Pierre-Elisabeth de Fontanieu, each drum-shaped vase finely painted with a putto in a landscape holding military attributes, each reverse painted with a bouquet, within oval reserves on a gilt oeil-de-perdrix ground, flanked by angular bracket handles suspending rings and with scrolling foliate terminals, the covers domed, gadrooned and with ovoid knops, the necks and lower bodies applied with floral swags and 'pearl' bands, on round gilt bases
151⁄2 in. (39.4 cm.) high
Provenance
La Collection de M. le marquis d’Osmond; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 9 February 1884, lot 3 (65,000 francs).
Baron Édouard de Rothschild, collection no. 377B.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation in Paris after May 1940 (ERR no. R4406a,b).
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. 989).
Returned to France on 2 March 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
Details
The models after designs by Pierre-Elisabeth de Fontanieu, each drum-shaped vase finely painted with a putto in a landscape holding military attributes, each reverse painted with a bouquet, within oval reserves on a gilt oeil-de-perdrix ground, flanked by angular bracket handles suspending rings and with scrolling foliate terminals, the covers domed, gadrooned and with ovoid knops, the necks and lower bodies applied with floral swags and 'pearl' bands, on round gilt bases
151⁄2 in. (39.4 cm.) high
Provenance
La Collection de M. le marquis d’Osmond; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 9 February 1884, lot 3 (65,000 francs).
Baron Édouard de Rothschild, collection no. 377B.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation in Paris after May 1940 (ERR no. R4406a,b).
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. 989).
Returned to France on 2 March 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
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