ID 1027651
Lot 258 | A DERUTA MAIOLICA DATED GOLD-LUSTRED ‘BELLA DONNA’ CHARGER
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 40 000
DATED 1507
Painted in shades of blue and enriched in lustre with a finely dressed young woman in profile to the left, the ribbon in her left hand and scrolling behind her inscribed VERTV · E BELLEZA · FALO MO · BEATO 1507, the border with nine spirally-radiating leaves divided by flowers
15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm.) diameter
Provenance
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 4018).
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. 343/10).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
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. 386, no. 100.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Сharger |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Сharger |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
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