ID 1027601
Lot 129 | AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO EWER
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
CIRCA 1540-1560
The body shell-form, one end with a beast’s mask, the other with a large leaf-shaped spout, two snakes tied at the center forming the handle, the body painted with an istoriato scene of Apollo and Daphne, one side with the river-god Peneus with an up-turned urn and Daphne nearby, the other with Apollo chasing her, a seated figure nearby, in rocky wooded landscapes, on an oval foot, the underside with various labels including a printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 134' for Édouard de Rothschild
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Described in Baron Alphonse de Rothschild's 1905 inventory as hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris, Faïence Italienne, Aiguière recourbée Apollon poursuivant Daphné estimée 200 francs.
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 4084).
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. 390/6).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Bowls |
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Bowls |
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