AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ARMORIAL TONDINO

Lot 245
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 245 | AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ARMORIAL TONDINO
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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ARMORIAL TONDINO

CIRCA 1500-1515, ALMOST CERTAINLY FAENZA

Painted with a central shield inscribed with the initials P and F, surmounted by a fleur-de-lys and flanked by fluttering ribbons, the broad blue-ground border reserved with grotesques between borders of stick and bead ornament, the reverse with two registers of radiating interlocking lappets between blue bands, with printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 321' for Edouard de Rothschild

9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) diameter





Provenance

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 4049).

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. 348/7).

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.
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