ID 1027496
Lot 130 | A DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA DISH
Estimate value
$ 7 000 – 10 000
CIRCA 1530
The center painted with Cupid seated on his quiver of arrows, his hand to his head in thought, a bow before him, in a stylized landscape enclosed by a white band with bianco sopra bianco scrolls, the broad blue-ground anthemion border with radiating sgraffito white palmettes and scrolls, some enriched in green
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).
Probably described in Baron Alphonse de Rothschild's 1905 inventory as hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris, Faïence Italienne, coupe triangulaire estimée 50 francs.
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 4023).
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. 349/5).
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.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
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