A GUBBIO MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED DISH

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12.10.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 199 | A GUBBIO MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED DISH
A GUBBIO MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED DISH

CIRCA 1525-1530

The recessed gold-lustre center painted in shades of grey with Cupid holding a flaming torch, the blue-ground border reserved with gold and ruby lustre grotesques with cornucopias, palmettes, foliate scrolls and pendant drapes, the three winged putti masks painted in shades of blue and grey, the reverse with concentric bands and lines of lustre and an indistinct inscription …de (?) Ferriere (?) in ink, with red sealing-wax (indistinctly impressed) and a printed label inscribed 'P. 48 /E. de R./ 7' for Édouard de Rothschild

9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diameter





Provenance

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 4041).

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. 339/15).

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

By descent to the present owners.
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