A Renaissance-Style Glass Casket with Enamelled Gold Mounts, 19th Century
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Description
the upright rectangular body and hinged stepped lid formed of openwork brightly-enamelled scrolls, set with pearls and pink, red and white pastes, the corners applied with columns in opaque blue and white enamel, glass lining to body, protruding enamelled strapwork footrim, apparently unmarked
Height 5 in.
12.8 cm
Baron Carl (Charles) Mayer von Rothschild of Frankfurt (1788-1886);
Thence by descent to his daughter Emma Louise Rothschild, later Lady Rothschild (1844-1935) wife of Nathaniel, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840-1915);
Thence by descent;
Sotheby's London, Treasures from the Rothschild Collection, 12 December 2003, lot 27
Unpublished archive: Listed as part of the estate of the late Emma Louisa, Lady Rothschild, Tring Park, Hertfordshire (schedule prepared by Knight Frank and Rutley May 1935) as coming from the collection of Baron Charles de Rothschild
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