AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER

Lot 133
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 133 | AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER
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$ 18 000 – 25 000
AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER

POSSIBLY 1545-1551

Painted with The Judgment of Paris, with Paris handing a golden apple to the victor Venus as Juno and Minerva console one another, in a mountainous landscape with distant buildings, Apollo in his chariot above with Zeus, Diana and other gods and attendants, the border with bands of cable and bead ornament enclosing figures, drapery, lions and masks centered above by a martial trophy and below by a festoon and strapwork with a lion’s mask, the reverse with an inscription DELE TRE IGNVDE DEE GIVDICA PARIS

16 5/8 in. (42.2 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 in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4059).

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. 1275/1).

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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