A LARGE DERUTA MAIOLICA GOLD-LUSTRED ‘BELLA DONNA’ CHARGER

Lot 249
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 249 | A LARGE DERUTA MAIOLICA GOLD-LUSTRED ‘BELLA DONNA’ CHARGER
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$ 15 000 – 25 000
A LARGE DERUTA MAIOLICA GOLD-LUSTRED ‘BELLA DONNA’ CHARGER

CIRCA 1520-1530

Painted in shades of blue and lustred with a young woman in profile to the right, the scrolling ribbon around her inscribed CHI BE[N] GVIDA SVA · BARCA · E SE[M]PRE I[N] PORTO, the a quartieri border with panels of scale ornament alternating with foliage, the footrim pierced for suspension, the reverse with a printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 115' for Edouard de Rothschild

18 in. (45.9 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 4026).

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. 343/11).

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

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

A. Clarke, Ideal Brides. Deruta Bella Donna Plates, c. 1500-1550, Rome, 2020, p. 406, no. 193.
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