ID 1027561
Lot 254 | AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA LARGE ISTORIATO BASIN
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
CIRCA 1510, PROBABLY FAENZA
Painted with the story of Diana and Actaeon, Diana and one of her companions bathing in the octagonal basin of a fountain in a landscape, Actaeon transformed into a stag and his own hunting hounds attacking him, the well with alternating brown and yellow ochre flutes, the blue-ground border with interlocking sgraffito lines partly shaded in dark-blue, the reverse centered by a large foliate boss or stylized flowerhead, the blue-striped border with radiating ochre-striped petals, with printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 120' for Édouard de Rothschild and printed Musée de l’Orangerie label inscribed '141' in pencil
16 ¾ in. (42.8 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Probably Count Ferdinando Pasolini Dall’Onda, Faenza.
Probably 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 4052).
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. 348/10).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Probably the basin described by Luigi Frati, Del Museo Pasolini in Faenza, Descrizione, Bologna, 1852, no. 12.
Probably the basin noted in the Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosité exposés au Musée Rétrospectif ouvert au Palais de l’Industrie en 1865, Paris, 1866, p. 241, no. 2633.
Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I.
Les chefs-d’œuvre des collections privées Françaises, retrouvés en Allemagne, 1946, p. 65, no. 167.
Exhibited
Probably the basin exhibited in Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 2633.
Paris, Orangerie de Tuileries, Les Chefs-d’Oeuvre des Collections Privées Françaises, June-August 1946, no. 167.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
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