ID 1027550
Lot 171 | TWO FRENCH POST-PALISSY EARTHENWARE EWERS
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
CIRCA 1600-1650, PROBABLY PARIS OR FONTAINEBLEAU, AFTER A MODEL BY FRANÇOIS BRIOT
Each oviform body divided into three by bands of relief decoration consisting of grotesques, strapwork, foliage, cherubic heads and three cartouches with the theological virtues Faith, Hope and Charity, a mask below the spout, the handle with an applied female figure, on a pale-blue ground, the inside mottled blue on a manganese ground, the bases with printed labels inscribed 'P. 48 /E. de R./64 & 65' for Édouard de Rothschild and 'Einsatzstab R nr. 4146 a & b'
11 3/8 in. (29 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 in May 1940 (ERR nos. R 4146 a & b).
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 nos. 340/1 & 340/2).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Collection de Mr. Le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1890, (n.d.), vol. II, pl. 23 et 26.
Germaine de Rothschild, Serge Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, pl. 30, no. XXVIII.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Bowls |
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
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