parcel-gilt polychrome enamel; with narrative scenes decorating the exterior of the cup and inscribed around the rim 'MEDE CINER EST MON INVENTION QVI DE TOVS SVIS LAIDE ET SVBVENTION / SVBIECTE MEST DES HERBES LA PVISSANSE DONT GIST EN MOY DE SANTE LA FIANCE'; the base of the cup gadrooned with scrolling pattern and lion masks; the interior and foot with scrolling foliate and animal motifs; the underside with flowers and fleur de lis and a paper label inscribed '884'
4¹⁄₂ in. (11.5 cm.) high
3³⁄₈ in. (8.5 cm.) diam.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the Boudoir vert sur la cour, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 3828).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Alt Aussee salt mines, Austria (no. 273/12), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 347/12).
Returned to France on 25 June 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

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