A GUBBIO MAIOLICA DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED ISTORIATO PLATE

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Lot 198 | A GUBBIO MAIOLICA DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED ISTORIATO PLATE
A GUBBIO MAIOLICA DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED ISTORIATO PLATE

DATED 1534, BY FRANCESCO URBINI, PROBABLY MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI’S WORKSHOP

Painted with the Return of the Prodigal Son, with finely dressed figures in a street near the gate to a building, the returning son barefoot and with a staff, the scene enriched in lustre, the reverse lustred with four groupings of scrolling foliage, the center inscribed 15 34 / , filius, hic prodigus, mortuus, / fuerat & Reuixit perierat & i[n]ue[n] / tus est / In ugubio in blue, with printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R. /116' for Édouard de Rothschild

9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) diameter





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 4039).

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. 339/13).

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. 43.

Cited by Alfred Darcel, ‘Le moyen-âge et la renaissance au Trocadéro: 4e article: Les faïences italiennes’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 2nd series, 18, 1878, p. 978.

Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I.

Les chefs-d’œuvre des collections privées Françaises, retrouvés en Allemagne, 1946, p. 66, no. 176.



Exhibited

Paris, Trocadero, Exposition Universelle, May-November 1878. Paris, Orangerie de Tuileries, Les Chefs-d’Oeuvre des Collections Privées Françaises, June-August 1946, no. 176.
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