AN URBINO MAIOLICA ARMORIAL ISTORIATO PUZZLE-JUG

Lot 126
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 126 | AN URBINO MAIOLICA ARMORIAL ISTORIATO PUZZLE-JUG
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$ 7 000 – 10 000
AN URBINO MAIOLICA ARMORIAL ISTORIATO PUZZLE-JUG

CIRCA 1550-1580, FONTANA WORKSHOP

Of baluster form, the bulbous body painted with a continuous istoriato scene centered by a shield of arms in an escutcheon flanked by the letters C· and M·, a triton carrying a nymph and a double-tailed gorgona mermaid riding a mythical sea creature with the body of a lion, the waisted pierced green neck with entrelac ornament below an ochre rim with three spouts, the handle formed as two snakes, the underside with a printed label inscribed 'P 48 / E. de R./ 144' for Edouard de Rothschild

7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high





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 4083).

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. 391/5).

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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