A DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA DATED RUBY-LUSTRED `BELLA DONNA` FOOTED DISH

Lot 191
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 191 | A DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA DATED RUBY-LUSTRED 'BELLA DONNA' FOOTED DISH
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$ 15 000 – 20 000
A DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA DATED RUBY-LUSTRED 'BELLA DONNA' FOOTED DISH

DATED 1530, LUSTRED AND PROBABLY ALSO MADE IN THE GUBBIO WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI

Painted with the bust-length portrait of a finely dressed young woman wearing a coral necklace and coral earrings, her yellow and black damask cap enriched in lustre, against a blue ground lustred with stars and reserved with a scrolling ribbon inscribed LA · BEL LA · IVSTINA, the reverse inscribed in ruby lustre with 1530 / Mo Go within the foot, surrounded by four lustred scrolling foliate stems

8 ¾ in. (22.1 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Probably the lustred ‘Faustina’ piece owned by Count Ferdinando Pasolini Dall’Onda, Faenza.

Probably by descent to Count Benvenuto Pasolini Dall’Onda, his sale (sold anonymously as ‘Catalogue d’un belle collection de Majoliques Italiennes des diverses fabriques des XVe, XVIe & XVIIe siècles’); Ridel & Roussel, Rue de Jeuneurs 42, Paris, 13-15 December 1853, lot 177.

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 4038).

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. 339/12).

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

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Luigi Frati, Del Museo Pasolini in Faenza, Descrizione, Bologna, 1852, no. 40.
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