A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE GOLD-LUSTRED BASIN OR EWER-STAND

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Lot 217 | A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE GOLD-LUSTRED BASIN OR EWER-STAND
A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE GOLD-LUSTRED BASIN OR EWER-STAND

CIRCA 1475-1494, VALENCIA, PROBABLY MANISES

The deep recess with a raised central boss painted with the impaled arms of the Piccolomini and Spannochi families in dark-blue, manganese, white and gold lustre, the well and flat border applied with an interlocking network of ribs and dots against a ground of repeated lustred ‘dot-and-stalk’ motifs, the reverse lustred with leafy ferns, with six old paper labels including printed labels inscribed ‘A. de R. N° 1’ for Alphonse de Rothschild and ‘P. 48 /E. de R./1’ for Édouard de Rothschild, and a printed Musée de l’Orangerie label inscribed 158 in pencil

19 in. (48.1 cm.) diameter; 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) high





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), by 1865.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of Paris in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4006).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Buxheim monastery, Germany.

Returned directly from the above to France and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosité exposés au Musée Rétrospectif ouvert au Palais de l’Industrie en 1865, Paris, 1866, p. 235, no. 2661. Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. II.

G. Migeon, Exposition des Arts Musulmans, Paris, 1903, pl. 56.

Cited by Albert Van de Put, Hispano-Moresque Ware of the XV Century, London, 1904, p. 96.

Manuel González Martí, Cerámica del Levante Español, Siglos Medievales, Barcelona, 1944, Vol. I (Loza), p. 514, Fig. 627.

Les chefs-d’œuvre des collections privées Françaises, retrouvés en Allemagne, 1946, p. 67, no. 182.

Cited by Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica and Europe, Oxford, 2017, p. 426 and p. 427, note 3.



Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 2661.

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, ‘Exposition des Arts Musulmans’, May-June 1903.

Paris, Orangerie de Tuileries, Les Chefs-d’Oeuvre des Collections Privées Françaises, June-August 1946, no. 182.
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