ID 1027520
Lot 150 | A LARGE URBINO MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED ARMORIAL BASIN
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
CIRCA 1570-1585, FONTANA WORKSHOP OR PATANAZZI WORKSHOP
Of campana form with a flaring and fluted neck, the gadrooned bulbous body on a circular socle, the handles formed as monsters’ heads with double tails, the white-ground exterior and interior painted with grotesques, the interior with a central medallion enclosing an oval shield with a coat of arms within a strapwork escutcheon and surmounted by a cardinal’s red galero, flanked on each side by six pendant tassels, the rim painted with a band of egg-and-dart ornament
18 3/8 in. (46.7 cm.) wide; 10 ¼ in. (25.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Commissioned for Cardinal Felice Peretti (1521-1590).
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 4071).
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. 391/1).
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: | Wash basin |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Wash basin |
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