A LARGE DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA DATED ISTORIATO CHARGER

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Lot 17 | A LARGE DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA DATED ISTORIATO CHARGER
A LARGE DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA DATED ISTORIATO CHARGER

DATED 1531

Painted with the martyrdom of Saint Lawrence on a brazier, a crowd of spectators assembled to watch from a stepped platform and from a columned gallery above, a tablet in the foreground inscribed GOBO, the reverse with a large blue circle with a central rectangular space inscribed Mirate in su la grate patiente / Lorenzo per fruir quel gaudio imenso / Cui tutto ne’l divino amore acceso / Rendendo l’alma a Dio, do lor no sente. / alli 29 d[i] luglio 1531 within a dark-blue cartouche reserved with interlocking ochre foliage and with sgraffito tendrils, with printed labels for the Alphonse de Rothschild collection and the Union Centrale exhibition

18 ¾ in. (47.8 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, ‘Catalogue of the late Lord Northwick’s Extensive and Magnificent Collection of Pictures…at Thirlestane House, Cheltenham’; Phillips, 26 July 1859 (and 26 subsequent days), lot 666.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), by 1865.

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 inv. no. R 4061).

Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria.

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

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

W. Chaffers, Marks & Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1863, p. 54.

Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosité exposés au Musée Rétrospectif ouvert au Palais de l’Industrie en 1865, Paris, 1866, p. 253, no. 2788.

Franck, L’art ancien. Photographies des collections célèbres par Franck, Paris, 1868, Vol. II.

Cited by Alfred Darcel, ‘Le moyen-âge et la renaissance au Trocadéro: 4e article: Les faïences italiennes’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 2nd series, 18, 1878, pp. 974-975.

Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I (where it was attributed to Francesco Xanto Avelli).



Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no 2788.

Paris, Palais du Trocadéro, Exposition rétrospective also named Exposition historique de l'art ancien during the Exposition universelle, 1st May-31st October 1878.
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