A GUBBIO MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY-LUSTRED TONDINO

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Lot 188 | A GUBBIO MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY-LUSTRED TONDINO
A GUBBIO MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY-LUSTRED TONDINO

CIRCA 1518, WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI

The center with an ogival quatrefoil panel enclosing a badge, with a crossed cypher above a hand flanked by the letters F and G with KO below, the well with stylized lustred flowerheads and foliage, the broad lustred border reserved with a candelieri grotesques with scrolls, cornucopias, dolphins’ heads and putti holding scrolls terminating in horses’ heads, the reverse lustred with crossed lozenges between lustred bands, the central lustred panel enclosed by the footrim, with printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 110' for Edouard de Rothschlid and an Union Centrale exhibition label

9 ½ in. (24 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Alexander P.B. Basilewski Collection.

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 4042).

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. 339/16).

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. 248, no. 2725.

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

Cited by Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 2009, Vol. II, p. 490 (as being in a private collection in Paris).



Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 2725 (lent by Basilewski).
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