ID 1027637
Lot 158 | A LARGE DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA DATED LUSTRED ISTORIATO CHARGER
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
DATED 1539, POSSIBLY PAINTED IN URBINO, POSSIBLY LUSTRED AT GUBBIO IN MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI’S WORKSHOP, OR PERHAPS AT VINCENZO ANDREOLI’S WORKSHOP IN URBINO
Painted with the story of Marcus Curtius leaping into the chasm to save Rome, surrounded by soldiers on foot and on horseback, a gate to the city on the right, the foreground with a tablet with an inscription, the reverse with ruby lustre foliate scrolls around a central date and enclosed by two concentric yellow bands near the rim
17 ¾ in. (45.1 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 4099).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1257/11).
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: | Сharger |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Сharger |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
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