ID 1027455
Lot 15 | AN URBINO MAIOLICA DATED RUBY-LUSTRED ISTORIATO PLATE
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
DATED 1533, SIGNED AND DATED BY FRANCESCO XANTO AVELLI, THE LUSTRE APPLIED IN GUBBIO, PROBABLY IN THE WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI
Painted with the Death of Procris, with her husband Cephalus leaping and hurling a spear, Procris recumbent by a tree-stump, Cupid flying down with a drape, a busybody to the left by a classical building, the reverse lustred with radiating overlapping foliage and scrolls, the center lustred with a scrolling flourish below and partially over the blue inscription ·1533· / L’inamorata Procri al / fin suo reo. / Nel · VII · Libro d[e] Ovidio Met:[amorphoses] / ·Fra:[ncesco] Xanto ·A·[velli] / da Rovigo, i[n] / Urbino ·, with a printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R. /318' for Édouard de Rothschild
10 ¼ in. (26.1 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 (ERR inv. no. R 4096).
Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria.
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.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes, Plates |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes, Plates |
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