ID 1027515
Lot 156 | AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
CIRCA 1548-1560, PROBABLY URBINO
Painted with King Priam of Troy receiving Helen, a crowd of figures around them, with soldiers on horseback to the right, before a columned building and the city of Troy and distant mountains, the reverse inscribed Quando il Re Priamo / Riceuette Benegnamete / Hellena nelle sue Case in blue within concentric ochre bands
15 ¾ in. (39.9 cm.) diameter
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 4068).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1257/6).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Luigi Frati, Del Museo Pasolini in Faenza, Descrizione, Bologna, 1852, no. 103.
Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I.
Cited by Gaetano Ballardini, ‘Rimpianti: Due Collezioni Faentine Disperse’, Faenza, Anno XVI, V, 1928, p. 110.
Cited by Timothy Clifford and J.V.G. Mallet, ‘Battista Franco as a Designer for Maiolica’, Burlington Magazine, no, 879, June 1976, p. 404.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Сharger |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Сharger |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
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