A CENTRAL EUROPEAN GOLD-PAINTED MIRROR

This mirror has label for Schloss Schillersdorf, the vast hunting estate in Silesia of the Austrian Rothschilds. It was purchased by Salomon de Rothschild (d.1911) in 1843 shortly after he was made a citizen of Vienna. His sons, Baron Alphonse (1878-1942) and Baron Louis Nathaniel (1882-1995) continued to use it, especially Louis Nathaniel, who was a renowned sportsman. It was confiscated first by the Nazis and then after World War II by the communist Czechoslovakian government, which converted it to a hotel training center which it remains today.