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GOLD: JEWELRY
- Hercules Pendant
Paris, circa 1540
Gold; white, blue, and black enamel; and
a baroque pearl
Height: 2^3 /s in. (6 cm); Width: 2V8 in.
(5.4 cm)
Accession number 85 .SE.237
PROVENANCE
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Vienna;
Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, Vienna;
C. Ruxton Love, New York (sold, Christie's,
Geneva, November 13, 1984, lot 45); [David,
Inc., Vaduz].
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EXHIBITIONS
New York, A La Vieille Russie, The Art of
the Goldsmith and the Jeweller, Novem
ber 6-23,1968, no. 8, p. 15.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Yvonne Hackenbroch, "Bijoux de FEcole
de Fontainebleau," Actes du Colloque Inter
nationalsur I Art de Fontainebleau (Paris,
1975), p. 71, figs. 1-2; Yvonne Hackenbroch,
Renaissance Jewellery (London, 1979),
dust jacket illus. and pi. 7, nos. 140A-B,
pp. 63-64; Christies Review of the Season
1984 (Oxford, 1985), p. 338; Souren
Melikian, Art and Auction 7 (January 1985),
p. 144; "La Cote du Mois," L'Estampille 177
(January 1985), p. 67;"Acquisitions/i985,"
GettyMusJ 14 (19S6),no. 216, pp. 252-253,
illus.; Handbook1991, p. 204, illus.
ENAMELS
- Prudence Commesso Hat Badge
(enseigne)
1550-1560
Gold; white, blue, red, and black enamel;
chalcedony; and a table-cut diamond
Height: 2% in. (5.7 cm)
Accession number 85 .SE.238
PROVENANCE
Baronne James de Rothschild, Paris, 1866;
Thomas Ε Flannery, Jr., Winnetka, Illinois
(sold, Sotheby's, London, December 1, 1983,
lot 288); [David, Inc., Vaduz].
EXHIBITIONS
Loyola University of Chicago, The Art of
Jewelry, 1450-1600,1975, no. 9; The Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco, The Triumph
of Humanism: Three Phases of Renaissance
Decorative Arts 1450-1600, October 1977-
January 1978, no. 99.
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