ID 1027626
Lot 218 | A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE ARMORIAL GOLD-LUSTRED CHARGER
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
CIRCA 1430-1470, VALENCIA, PROBABLY MANISES
The center with a shield with the arms of the Florentine Morelli family against a ground of lustred bryony flowers enclosed by a rope-twist circle, the well and border painted with radiating dark-blue stems issuing dark-blue bryony flowers and parsley leaves and lustre tendrils, the reverse with two concentric registers of dark-blue parsley stems and leaves and lustred foliage around a similarly decorated center, with a printed collection label inscribed ‘P. 48 /E. de R./ 103' for Édouard de Rothschild
19 in. (48.2 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Commissioned for a member of the Morelli family, possibly Giovanni di Martolomeo Morelli, 15th century.
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 in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4001).
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. 388/2).
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. II.
Marco Spallanzani, Maioliche Ispano-Moresche a Firenze, Florence, 2006, p. 203 and p. 279, tav. 52.
| 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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