ID 1027595
Lot 252 | A DERUTA MAIOLICA EWER-STAND
Estimate value
$ 5 000 – 8 000
CIRCA 1545
The center painted with Mucius Scaevola in a stylized landscape, his right hand above a flaming pedestal and his foot overstepping the yellow band enclosing the scene, within a white band with scrolling ochre stems with acorns, the broad blue-ground well molded with a candelieri grotesques enriched in colors, the orange-ground border molded with a fruiting and flowering garland interspersed with masks and martial trophies, the reverse with an Union Centrale exhibition label
15 1/8 in. (38.5 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 4015).
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. 343/8).
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. 2688.
Franck, L’art ancien. Photographies des collections célèbres par Franck, Paris, 1868, Vol. II.
Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I.
Exhibited
Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 2688.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
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