A LARGE URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER

Lot 153
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 153 | A LARGE URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER
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A LARGE URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER

CIRCA 1560-1575, PROBABLY FONTANA WORKSHOP

Painted with Achilles arming himself after a drawing by Battista Franco, the city of Troy in the distance, the white-ground border painted with grotesques centering circular medallions at the sides and by lobed panels above and below, the reverse inscribed Di patrocolo à Vendetta / Achille Sarma in blue, within concentric ochre bands at the footrim and border

17 7/8 in. (45.3 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 in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4070).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1257/8).

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.
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