ID 1027522
Lot 196 | AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED LUSTRED VASE
Estimate value
$ 6 000 – 8 000
CIRCA 1510-1520, PROBABLY GUBBIO OR POSSIBLY DERUTA
With two strap handles, the waisted neck lustred with a candelieri grotesques edged in shades of blue with winged sphinxes, martial trophies, masks, snails and other creatures, the lower body lustred with foliage in panels, on a waisted foot, the underside with a printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 98' for Edouard de Rothschild
11 ½ in. (29 cm.) high
Provenance
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 4047).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 18 June 1945 (MCCP no. 53/2).
Returned to France on 25 June 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
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