A MONUMENTAL ITALIAN MAIOLICA ARMORIAL ISTORIATO OVAL DISH

Los 7
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
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Los 7 | A MONUMENTAL ITALIAN MAIOLICA ARMORIAL ISTORIATO OVAL DISH
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A MONUMENTAL ITALIAN MAIOLICA ARMORIAL ISTORIATO OVAL DISH

CIRCA 1563-1565, GUIDO AND ORAZIO FONTANA WORKSHOP, URBINO, OR ORAZIO FONTANA WORKSHOP, URBINO (OR POSSIBLY TURIN)

The interior painted with five scenes depicting episodes from the campaigns of Julius Caesar divided by molded strapwork with female masks and screaming satyr masks, the white-ground border painted with grotesques spaced by four circular medallions and four panels within strapwork escutcheons, enclosed by a band of molded ochre beads and an egg and dart ornament rim, the reverse with the arms of Cardinal Iñigo d’Avalos surmounted by his red galero and flanked by twelve pendant tassels, within an ochre footrim and molded strapwork cartouche with fleur-de-lys against a ground painted to simulate a wavy sea with swimming dolphins and sea-monsters, enclosed by a molded strapwork border punctuated by four fleur-de-lys

26 3/8 in. (67 cm.) wide





Provenance

Cardinal Iñigo d’Avalos (1536-1600).

Probably Albert collection, ‘Collection du cabinet de Mr Albert’ sale; Pillet, Paris, 28-30 January 1861, lot 5.

Samuel Addington, London, by 1862.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905) by circa 1900.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France (ERR no. R 4066).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Alt Aussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 352/1).

Returned to France on 23 May 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

J.C. Robinson (ed.), Special Exhibition of Works of Art, of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods, on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862, revised edition, London, 1863, no. 5263.

Photographic Guard Book, no. 3388, 19th century (Victoria & Albert Museum Archive).

Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I.

Jole Giordana Romano, ‘Ipotesi su un piatto per l’arcivescovo Iñigo Avalos Aragona nella sua permanenza a Torino (1563-1564)’, Studi Piedmontesi, March 1992, Vol. XXI, fasc. 1, pp. 139-144, where the photograph from the V&A Museum’s Photographic Guard Book is illustrated on p. 144.

Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti, ‘Filiazioni: maiolica “fatta in Torino” nel secondo ‘500’, Faenza, No. 1, 2006, p. 43.

Cited by Cristina Maritano, ‘Orazio Fontana e Antonio «Vasari d’Urbino» al servizio di Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia’ in Faenza, N. 2., 2020, pp. 127-128.

Cited by Christopher Poke, ‘Jacques Androuet I Ducerceau’s “Petites Grotesques” as a source for Urbino maiolica decoration’ in Burlington Magazine, Vol. CXLIII, no. 1179, June 2001, p. 334 and p. 343, no. 14.

Cited by Timothy Wilson, Maiolica, Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2016, p. 295 and p. 357, note 19.



Exhibited

London, South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum), Special Exhibition of Works of Art, June 1862, no. 5263 (loaned by Samuel Addington).
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