A GUBBIO MAIOLICA DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED TONDINO

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Lot 204 | A GUBBIO MAIOLICA DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED TONDINO
A GUBBIO MAIOLICA DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED TONDINO

DATED 1518, POSSIBLY WORKSHOP OF GIACOMO DI PAOLUCCIO OR WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI

The center with a warrior in profile to the left and wearing a winged parade helmet all’antica, against a blue ground with a scroll inscribed meme[n]to mo[r]i, the gold-lustre border reserved with musical trophies, books, fluttering ribbons and two cornucopias, a ruby-lustred tablet dated 1518, two scrolls inscribed a la virtu no[n] ma[n]ca(?) luco and recole de canto, the reverse lustred with a band of dashes in a chevron configuration enclosed by concentric bands, the border with large scrolls divided by shaded lozenges over crossed ornament, with partial printed label for Alphonse de Rothschild

10 3/8 in. (26.4 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 (ERR inv. no. R 4028).

Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section.

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

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosité exposés au Musée Rétrospectif ouvert au Palais de l’Industrie en 1865, Paris, 1866, p. 247, no. 2704.

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



Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 2704.
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