AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ARMORIAL ISTORIATO PLATE CENTER

Lot 250
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 250 | AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ARMORIAL ISTORIATO PLATE CENTER
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ARMORIAL ISTORIATO PLATE CENTER

CIRCA 1520-1525, PROBABLY FORLÌ, OR PERHAPS FAENZA

The center painted with Vulcan at his forge outside a building with Venus and Cupid in front of him, three companions nearby, in a river landscape with distant mountains, the yellow-ground border painted with grotesques and centered above by a panel with an armorial shield, the reverse with scrolling ochre foliage between shaded blue bands, the center with a martial trophy

11 3/8 in. (28.8 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Probably commissioned for a member of the Benti or Bentii family of Forlì, early 16th century.

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 4024).

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. 349/6).

Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.
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