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A BERNARD PALISSY OR HIS WORKSHOP EARTHENWARE ‘PLAT DU DELUGE’ LARGE OVAL DISH

Lot 12
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1027462
Lot 12 | A BERNARD PALISSY OR HIS WORKSHOP EARTHENWARE ‘PLAT DU DELUGE’ LARGE OVAL DISH
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$ 30 000 – 50 000
A BERNARD PALISSY OR HIS WORKSHOP EARTHENWARE ‘PLAT DU DELUGE’ LARGE OVAL DISH

CIRCA 1565-1570, PARIS

Decorated in relief on a blue ground with Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus on a protruding oval boss at center, surrounded by numerous men, women and animals in the Flood, the border with scenes of tritons and dolphins, the edge with a blue ground, the reverse marbled, with printed label inscribed ‘Einsatzstab R nr. 4128’ to the reverse

20 ½ in. (52 cm.) long, 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) wide





Provenance

Reverend Allan Downham, Norfolk, England.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4128).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 18 June 1945 (MCCP no. 98/4).

Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Alexandre Sauzay, Henri Delange, Carle Delange and C. Borneman, Monographie de l'oeuvre de Bernard Palissy suivie d'un choix de ses continuateurs ou imitateurs, Paris, 1862, pl. 23.

Collection de Mr. Le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1890, (n.d.), vol. II, pl. 32.

Henry Roujon, Emile Molinier, Frantz Marcou, Catalogue officiel illustré de l’Exposition rétrospective de l’art français des origines jusqu’à 1800, Exposition Universelle, 1900, no. 915.

Germaine de Rothschild, Serge Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, pl. 16, no. IV.

Bruno Dufay, Yves de Kisch, Dominique Poulain, Yves Roumégoux, Pierre-Jean Trombetta, 'L'atelier parisien de Bernard Palissy', Revue de l’Art, 1987, no. 78, p. 33-60.

Bernard Palissy, Mythe et Réalité, Exhibition catalogue, Saintes, Niort, Agen, June 1990-January 1991, no. 74, p. 70-71.

Léonard Amico, A la recherche du Paradis Terrestre, Bernard Palissy et ses continuateurs, 1996, no. 98, p. 245

Dominique Poulain, 'Bernard Palissy: Sources du répertoire décoratif de l’atelier des Tuileries', Albineana, 4, 1992, p. 195-196.

Jessica Denis-Dupuis, La céramique à Paris après Bernard Palissy (1590-1650): oeuvres, fabricants, collections, thèse de doctorat d’histoire moderne sous la direction de François Pernot, université Paris-Seine-Cergy-Pontoise, LabEx Patrima, 2018.

Jessica Denis-Dupuis, 'Le bassin dit du Déluge', Bernard Palissy: nouveaux regards sur la céramique française aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Technè, 47, 2019, pp. 96-99.



Exhibited

Exposition Rétrospective de l’Art français des origines à 1800, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, no. 915.
Medium:Ceramic
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes, Plates
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