ID 1027502
Lot 199 | A GUBBIO MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED DISH
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
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.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Address of auction |
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