A DERUTA MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED ‘BELLA DONNA’ CHARGER

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Lot 192 | A DERUTA MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED ‘BELLA DONNA’ CHARGER
A DERUTA MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED ‘BELLA DONNA’ CHARGER

CIRCA 1515

Painted in shades of blue and gold and ruby lustre with the profile of a young woman wearing a winged headdress and facing to the left, the scrolling ribbon around her inscribed ORARE SEGRETO E MOLTO ACETTO ADDIO, the a quartieri border with panels of scale ornament alternating with foliage

15 ½ in. (39.5 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 4008).

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. 343/1).

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. 243, no. 2659.

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. 391, no. 107.



Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 2659.
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