AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA DISH

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ID 1027559
Lot 154 | AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA DISH
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA DISH

CIRCA 1490-1505, PESARO, OR 1500-1515, URBINO OR CASTEL DURANTE

Boldly painted in shades of blue, ochre, green and yellow, the center with Cupid in a landscape, blindfolded and drawing his bow while balancing on a palle with one foot, the well with radiating panels of bianco sopra bianco ornament, the blue-ground border with trophies and arabesques centered at the sides with recumbent deer and above and below with tridents and dolphins, the reverse with three dark-blue bands between dark-blue lines, with printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 140' for Édouard de Rothschild

9 1/8 in. (23.1 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 4058).

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. 348/15).

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 1890 (n.d.), Vol. I.
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