parcel-gilt polychrome enamel; with three named Sibyls including ‘SIBILLA TIBVRTINA’ and ‘SIBILLA AGRIPA’ and the three prophets Daniel, Ezekiel and Isaiah; the top and underside each decorated with a sun; the underside with two paper labels inscribed 'Einsatz[stab RR] / Nr...' and 'P.48 / E. de R. / 553'
2³⁄₄ in. (7 cm.) high; 3¹⁄₂ in. (8.7 cm.) diam.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).
Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France after May 1940 (ERR no. R 3829).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 196/8).
Returned to France on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE :
P. Verdier, Catalogue of the painted enamels of the Renaissance, Baltimore, 1967, pp. 160-169.

Paris, Palais de l'industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, Union centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'industrie, 10 August-10 October 1865, no. 2450.

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