A LARGE DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER

Lot 247
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Lot 247 | A LARGE DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER
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$ 80 000 – 120 000
A LARGE DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER

CIRCA 1525, PROBABLY CASTEL DURANTE

Painted with The Judgment of Paris, Paris depicted presenting the golden apple to Venus, the winged figure of Victory flying above to crown her, before a distant landscape with islands, fortified buildings and mountains, Apollo driving his chariot through a zodiac circle in a sunburst above, Jupiter nearby holding thunderbolts, the well with a band of bianco sopra bianco ornament, the blue-ground border reserved with grisaille grotesques including winged harpies with bearded heads, wind-blown forelocks and snake tails

19 ¾ in. (50.3 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).

Confiscated during the Nazi occupation of France by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR inv. no. R 4021).

Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section.

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

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I (where it was attributed to Nicola da Urbino).

Les chefs-d’œuvre des collections privées Françaises, retrouvés en Allemagne, 1946, p. 66, no. 172 (as Cafaggiolo).



Exhibited

Paris, Orangerie de Tuileries, Les Chefs-d’Oeuvre des Collections Privées Françaises, June-August 1946, no. 172.
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