The Mentmore Venus and Atonius, maker's mark LB, probably for Lorenz Biller II, Augsburg, circa 1700

Purchased by E. Falcke in Portugal on behalf of Baron Meyer de Rothschild for £620 in 1872.

Baron Meyer de Rothschild (1818-1874) and then by descent to his daughter

Hannah de Rothschild (1851-1890), who married Archibald, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929) in 1878, and then by descent to their son

Albert, 6th Earl of Rosebery (1882-1974) The Estate of the late 6th Earl of Lord Rosebery and his family, Mentmore, Sotheby's House Sale, 19 May 1977, lot 694.

Christie's, London, 10 June 2010, lot 277.

Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Masterpieces of English and European Silver and Gold, January, 1980, no. 1.

Hannah de Rothschild, Countess of Rosebery, Mentmore Catalogue, privately printed by R. & R. Clarke of Edinburgh, 1884, p. 79a and 80

Copy of a manuscript letter from E. Falcke to Baron Meyer de Rothschild, dated 13 June 1872.

J. B. Hawkins, Masterpieces of English and European Silver and

Gold, Sydney, 1979, pp. 10-12.

J. B. Hawkins, The Al Tajir Collection of Silver and Gold, London, 1983, pp. 24-25.