A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND LUSTRED CHARGER

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Lot 215 | A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND LUSTRED CHARGER
A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND LUSTRED CHARGER

CIRCA 1500-1525, PROBABLY VALENCIA (MANISES)

Decorated in brown lustre and enriched in blue with a large winged blue griffin edged in lustre, its body with a network of interlocking circles and line ornament, surrounded by five large radiating blue and lustre pointed leaves, against a ground of lustred flowerheads and wheat ears divided by scrolling lines, the edge of the border with a band of script, the reverse with linked fern leaves around a central rosette, with a printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 96' for Édouard de Rothschild and a label inscribed ‘Insegnia guelfa’ in sepia ink, which suggests an Italian provenance

18 7/8 in. (48 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Probably Prince Soltykoff collection and his sale; Pillet, Paris, 8 April-1 May 1861, lot 662 (sold to Webb for 460 Francs, presumably John Webb, the London dealer).

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 4004).

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. 388/5).

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

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Les chefs-d’œuvre des collections privées Françaises, retrouvés en Allemagne, 1946, p. 67, no. 181.



Exhibited

Paris, Orangerie de Tuileries, Les Chefs-d’Oeuvre des Collections Privées Françaises, June-August 1946, no. 181.
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