A DERUTA MAIOLICA ‘BELLA DONNA’ PLATE

Lot 259
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Lot 259 | A DERUTA MAIOLICA ‘BELLA DONNA’ PLATE
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A DERUTA MAIOLICA ‘BELLA DONNA’ PLATE

CIRCA 1520-1530, BY NICOLA FRANCIOLI (CALLED ‘CO’)

The center painted with a bella donna, scantily clad, her hair wrapped with a scarf or band of cloth, the blue ground around her lustred with scrolling foliage, the blue-ground border reserved with four medallions, two with profile portraits, two with trophies, divided by scrolling foliage issuing from vases and masks, the ‘petal-back’ reverse painted with radiating blue petals, the reverse with a printed label inscribed ‘P. 48 /E. de R./128’ for Édouard de Rothschild and printed Musée de l’Orangerie label inscribed 133 in pencil

10 7/8 in. (27.8 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 4009).

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. 343/2).

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. 245, no. 2685.

Alfred Darcel and Henri Delange, Recueil de faïences italiennes de XVe, XVIe, et XVIIe siècles, Paris, 1869, pl. 39.

Cited by Alfred Darcel, ‘Le moyen-âge et la renaissance au Trocadéro: 4e article: Les faïences italiennes’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 2nd series, 18, 1878, p. 979.

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

A. Clarke, Ideal Brides. Deruta Bella Donna Plates, c. 1500-1550, Rome, 2020, p. 376, no. 58.





Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 2685.

Paris, Trocadero, Exposition Universelle, May-November 1878.

Paris, Orangerie de Tuileries, Les Chefs-d’Oeuvre des Collections Privées Françaises, June-August 1946.
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