A CARVED SAPPHIRE HINDU SAINT
Depicting a Hindu saint, carved sapphire of 37.82 carats, 1 1/8 in., 18th century
A CARVED SAPPHIRE HINDU SAINT
Depicting a Hindu saint, carved sapphire of 37.82 carats, 1 1/8 in., 18th century
Rothschild Collection
González-Palacios 1981, pp. 296-97, no. 142 Spink 1988, pp. 64-65, no. 49
The Miho Museum, Koka 2016, p. 28, no. 5 Grand Palais, Paris 2017, p. 202, no. 152 The Doge’s Palace, Venice 2017, p. 86, no. 43 The Palace Museum, Beijing 2018, p. 98, no. 44
This lot is offered without reserve.
Please note the following provenance for Lot 290: Maurice de Rothschild, Paris; on deposit at the Banque de Paris, from where it was confiscated by the Devisenschutz-Kommando following the Nazi occupation of Paris; Transferred to the Jeu de Paume (Einsatztab Reichsleiter Rosenberg no. R 2182), and from there to Lager Peter, Alt Aussee; Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Art and Archives Section; transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 266/30), 20 June 1945; Repatriated to Paris, 25 June 1946, and restituted to the Rothschild collection.
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