ID 1027615
Lot 132 | AN URBINO MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED PILGRIM-FLASK AND A COVER
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
CIRCA 1560-1575, PROBABLY ORAZIO OR FLAMINIO FONTANA WORKSHOP
The white ground finely painted with grotesques, the center of each side with a circular medallion painted in muted tones of pale-blue and brown with The drunkenness of Noah on one side, and Lot and his daughters on the other side, the city of Sodom burning in the background with the salt-pillar of Lot’s wife stood before it, within black cartouches with green egg-and-dart ornament, the shoulder applied with horned and bearded satyr mask handles, with later screw-top, the underside of the flask and cover each with a printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R. /94' or P. 48 / E. de R. /94B' for Édouard de Rothschild
14 5/8 in. (37.3 cm.) high
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 4080).
Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section.
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.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Flask |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Bottles, jars & flasks |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Category: | Flask |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Bottles, jars & flasks |
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