AN HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND LUSTRED ARMORIAL CHARGER

Lot 9
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Sold
$ 1 033 200
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
Archive
The auction is completed. No bids can be placed anymore.
Archive
ID 1027450
Lot 9 | AN HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND LUSTRED ARMORIAL CHARGER
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
AN HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND LUSTRED ARMORIAL CHARGER

CIRCA 1456-1461, VALENCIA, PROBABLY MANISES

Decorated in dark blue and lustre, the central medallion with the crowned arms of King Charles VII of France, the well with a band of lozenges, the broad border with three shields with the arms of Louis, Dauphin of France, the Duke of Burgundy and the arms of Portugal for the Duchess of Burgundy, divided by sparking flints between two briquets de bourgogne and against a ground of meandering lustred bryony and blue foliage, the reverse lustred with a large heraldic eagle displayed against a ground of fern leaves, pierced for suspension

18 in. (45.8 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Probably given by Philip III (‘Philip the Good’), Duke of Burgundy, to King Charles VII of France or his son Louis, later Louis XI.

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 inv. no. R 4000).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Alt Aussee salt mines, Austria (no. 314/1), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 388/1).

Returned to France on 9 January 1946 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. 243, no. 2654.

Franck, L’art ancien. Photographies des collections célèbres par Franck, Paris, 1868, Vol. II.

Cited by Alfred Darcel, ‘Le moyen-âge et la renaissance au Trocadéro: 4e article: Les faïences italiennes’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 2nd series, 18, 1878, p. 980.

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

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

Albert Van de Put, Hispano-Moresque Ware of the XV Century, London, 1904, pp. 69-71, pl. XIII.

Les chefs-d’œuvre des collections privées Françaises, retrouvés en Allemagne, 1946, p. 67, no. 179.

Balbina M. Caviró, La loza dorada en el Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, Oro y lapislázuli, Valencia, 2011, p. 50, no. 106.



Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 2654 (as Pesaro).

Paris, Trocadero, Exposition Universelle, May-November 1878.

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. 179.
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
20 Rockefeller Plaza
10020 New York
USA
Preview
07.10.2023 10:00 – 17:00
08.10.2023 13:00 – 17:00
09.10.2023 10:00 – 17:00
10.10.2023 10:00 – 17:00
11.10.2023 10:00 – 17:00
Phone +1 212 636 2000
Fax +1 212 636 4930
Email
Conditions of purchaseConditions of purchase
Shipping Postal service
Courier service
pickup by yourself
Payment methods Wire Transfer
Business hoursBusiness hours
Mo 09:30 – 17:00   
Tu 09:30 – 17:00   
We 09:30 – 17:00   
Th 09:30 – 17:00   
Fr 09:30 – 17:00   
Sa closed
Su closed

Related terms