ID 1027640
Lot 152 | AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO FOOTED DISH
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
CIRCA 1540-1550, PROBABLY FONTANA WORKSHOP
Painted with Greek soldiers bursting through the arches of a Trojan temple interior, Neoptolemus with his right arm raised and with a dagger over Polyxena wrestled to the ground, before three circular plinths, one with a statue of Achilles or Mars, the reverse inscribed Re piro ucise pulisena in blue within the foot, with a printed Alphonse de Rothschild collection label
10 1/8 in. (25.8 cm.) diameter
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 4067).
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. 390/3).
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. 139.
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 |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
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