A CAFAGGIOLO MAIOLICA DISH

Lot 255
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 255 | A CAFAGGIOLO MAIOLICA DISH
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A CAFAGGIOLO MAIOLICA DISH

CIRCA 1515-1525, SP MONOGRAM AND TRIDENT MARK

The central yellow-ground medallion reserved in shades of blue with a griffin with foliate wings and legs, a bird perched on its back and a turtle and a shell nearby, the blue-ground border painted in colors with grotesques, with tritons supporting vases and playing horns, divided by putti holding drapery, the ‘petal-back’ reverse with radiating petals in blue and orange lines against a seeded ground, the footrim enclosing an inscription in blue of SP / In chafaggiuolo / a trident, with an Union Centrale exhibition label

11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), by 1865.

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 4057).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 348/14).

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

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosité exposés au Musée Rétrospectif ouvert au Palais de l’Industrie en 1865, Paris, 1866, p. 239, no. 2690.

Alfred Darcel and Henri Delange, Recueil de faïences italiennes de XVe, XVIe, et XVIIe siècles, Paris, 1869, p. 19, p. 33 no. 25 and pl. 25.

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

Les chefs-d’œuvre des collections privées Françaises, retrouvés en Allemagne, 1946, p. 65, no. 169.

Galeazzo Cora and Angiolo Fanfani, La maiolica di Cafaggiolo, Florence, 1982, p. 77, fig. 61.



Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 2690.

Paris, Orangerie de Tuileries, Les Chefs-d’Oeuvre des Collections Privées Françaises, June-August 1946, no. 169.
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