ID 1027539
Lot 251 | A LARGE FAENZA MAIOLICA DATED ISTORIATO CHARGER
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
DATED 1555, POSSIBLY WORKSHOP OF VIRGILOTTO CALAMELLI
The center painted with Venus and Mars in a landscape, with Cupid nearby and also in a cloud above, a tablet to the right inscribed MARTE / VENERA, the a quartieri border with orange, green and blue-ground panels reserved with trophies, scrolling foliage and masks and centered at the sides, above and below with four portrait panels named for CEC ARE (Julius Caesar), NERONE (Emperor Nero), CHAR LVS (Charlemagne) and OTAVANO (Emperor Octavian), the reverse with concentric bands of ornament, the center dated 1555, with a partial label printed and inscribed 'P. [4]8 / E. de R / 123(?)' for Édouard de Rothschild
17 5/8 in. (44.8 cm.) diameter
Provenance
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 (ERR inv. no. R 4053).
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.
| 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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