ID 1027627
Lot 124 | A LARGE VENICE MAIOLICA DOCUMENTARY ISTORIATO CHARGER
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 90 000
DATED 1545, WORKSHOP OF FRANCESCO DI PIERO DA CASTEL DURANTE
Painted with Jupiter and gods atop Mount Olympus, the figures encircled by clouds and against a yellow sky, the reverse inscribed in blue Conuiuio d[e]l Sommo Giove / a tutti li Dei celesti / In Venetia a Sa[n] Thomà. In / botega di M[aestr]o Francesco / da Castel durante / d[e]l 1545, within concentric yellow bands
17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), by 1884.
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 4055).
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. 348/13).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
F. de Mély, La céramique italienne. Marques et monogrammes, Paris, 1884, p. 183.
Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I.
Caterina Marcantoni Cherido, ‘Sulle trace di Domenico da Venezia nella collezione di maioliche rinascimentali del Museo Correr, in Mario Panarello (ed.), Da Venezia alla Calabria, Briatico, 2023, p. 122, fig. 8.
Cited by Monica De Marco, ‘Nuovi dati sull’ambiente di Domenico da Venezia’, in Mario Panarello et. al, Da Venezia alla Calabria, Briatico, 2022, p. 34.
Caterina Marcantoni Cherido, Maioliche italiane del Rinscimento, 2023, p. 13, fig. 6 and fig 6a (a facsimile of de Mély’s 1884 entry).
| 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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