AN URBINO MAIOLICA DATED RUBY-LUSTRED ISTORIATO PLATE

Lot 15
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Lot 15 | AN URBINO MAIOLICA DATED RUBY-LUSTRED ISTORIATO PLATE
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AN URBINO MAIOLICA DATED RUBY-LUSTRED ISTORIATO PLATE

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.
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