AN URBINO MAIOLICA DOCUMENTARY ISTORIATO EWER

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Lot 155 | AN URBINO MAIOLICA DOCUMENTARY ISTORIATO EWER
AN URBINO MAIOLICA DOCUMENTARY ISTORIATO EWER

DATED 1535, BY FRANCESCO XANTO AVELLI

Painted with Apollo and the Muses by the Castalian Spring on Mount Parnassus, with Apollo seated and playing a lira da braccio before distant mountains, the flaring neck with winged putti and clouds, the blue-ground socle foot reserved with foliage, the black handle inscribed with the date ·M· / ·D·X / XXV and I [N] / V / RB / I / N / O and terminating with a tablet inscribed ·F·X·R· in black, the underside with various labels including a printed Baron Alphonse de Rothschild collection label (with a coronet), a label printed with 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 133' for Édouard de Rothschild, a label inscribed R 4094 and an Union Centrale exhibition

10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.) high





Provenance

Count Ferdinando Pasolini Dall’Onda, Faenza, 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 4094).

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. 390/7).

Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Luigi Frati, Del Museo Pasolini in Faenza, Descrizione, Bologna, 1852, no. 70. Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosité exposés au Musée Rétrospectif ouvert au Palais de l’Industrie en 1865, Paris, 1866, p. 252, no. 2772.

Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I.



Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 2772.
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