A MONUMENTAL URBINO MAIOLICA ARMORIAL OVAL BASIN

Lot 122
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 122 | A MONUMENTAL URBINO MAIOLICA ARMORIAL OVAL BASIN
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$ 40 000 – 60 000
A MONUMENTAL URBINO MAIOLICA ARMORIAL OVAL BASIN

CIRCA 1555

Painted with five scenes, two depicting contemporary episodes, divided by molded strapwork centering female masks and screaming satyr masks, the green-ground border reserved with four oval portrait medallions divided by strings of nude putti, within a bead and egg-and-dart ornament rim, the underside painted with the sea, the center with a sea-monster within an ochre footrim and molded strapwork cartouche punctuated by fleurs-de-lys, surrounded by four further sea-monsters and a band of bead and stick ornament, the rim painted to simulate a molded strapwork border, with printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 87' for Édouard de Rothschild

26 ½ in. (67.2 cm.) wide





Provenance

Count Ferdinando Pasolini Dall’Onda, Faenza.

Count Benvenuto Pasolini Dall’Onda.

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 4072).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 352/4).

Returned to France on 23 May 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owner.



Literature

Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I.
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