A DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA EWER

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ID 1027527
Lot 127 | A DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA EWER
A DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA EWER

CIRCA 1580-1600, PROBABLY URBINO, PROBABLY PATANAZZI WORKSHOP

Modeled in the form of a harpy-like creature with the winged body of a bird, a long tail curled up to its back in a twisted bundle and with an aperture, the spout formed as a bearded male human’s head on a long neck, an aperture to its mouth, on two bird-like webbed feet, the underside with a printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 135' for Édouard de Rothschild

7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm.) long; 6 3/8 in. (16 cm.) high





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 4082).

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. 391/4).

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.
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