An enamelled gold-mounted rock crystal cup and cover, Reinhold Vasters,...

in the Renaissance style, the oval base decorated with friezes of enamel and interlacing motifs matching those on the body, with a baluster stem, the fluted body engraved with scrolling foliage, putti heads and flowers, the finial on the cover modelled as Hercules and Cacus, in a velvet-lined oak case with label '67/ER/7-1'

35.3 cm, 13⅞in.

Provenance:
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris;

Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris;

confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of Paris by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg after May 1940 and transferred to the Jeu de Paume (ERR no. R 4859).

Restituted to the Rothschild Collection;

Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild (1914-1999), Tel Aviv, sold

Christie's, London, 14 December 2000, lot 70;

Christie's, New York, 13 April 2016, lot 1 (Rothschild inventory no. "E. de R. 290").

Literature:
Y. Hackenbroch, "Reinhold Vasters, Goldsmith," Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 19-20, 1984-5, fig.130-131

M.Krautwurst, Reinolhd Vasters -ein niederrheinischer Goldschmiede des 19. Jahrhunderts in der Tradition alter Meister Sein Zeichnnungskonvolut im Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Trier, mars 2003, p. 255-256.