ID 1027526
Lot 170 | A FRENCH POST-PALISSY EARTHENWARE 'TEMPERANTIA' DISH
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000
CIRCA 1600-1650, PROBABLY PARIS OR FONTAINEBLEAU, INCISED MARK F OR S, AFTER A MODEL BY FRANÇOIS BRIOT
With a central boss molded with a figure named TEMPERANTIA, surrounded by four cartouches with allegorical figures emblematic of the Elements, named AQVA, TERRA, IGNIS and AER, the rim with further vignettes of Minerva and the seven Liberal Arts, named GEOMETRIA, ASTROLOGIA, GRAMMATICA, DIALECTICA, RHETORICA, MUSICA, ARITHMETIQUA and MINERVA, divided by sections molded with masks, animals and foliage, the underside painted to resemble jasper, the base with a printed label from the Union central exhibition in 1865 with number 189/4235, as well as printed labels inscribed 'A. de R. N°' for Alphonse de Rothschild and 'P. 48 /E. de R./21' for Édouard de Rothschild, and with a label numbered 1631
16 ¾ in. (42.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Possibly Prince Pierre Soltykoff collection, his sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Pillet, 8 April-1 May 1861, lot 539, sold to Lafaulotte for 10,000 French francs.
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 4135).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 18 June 1945 (MCCP no. 116/5).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 844.
Collection Collection de Mr. Le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1890, (n.d.), vol. II, pl. 25.
Germaine de Rothschild, Serge Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, pl. 31, no. XXIX.
Exhibited
Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 844.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
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