AN URBINO DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED MAIOLICA ISTORIATO PLATE

Lot 160
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Lot 160 | AN URBINO DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED MAIOLICA ISTORIATO PLATE
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$ 70 000 – 100 000
AN URBINO DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED MAIOLICA ISTORIATO PLATE

DATED 1535, SIGNED AND DATED BY FRANCESCO XANTO AVELLI, THE LUSTRE APPLIED IN GUBBIO, PROBABLY IN THE WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI

Painted with The Sword of Damocles, with Damocles seated on a throne at a table, waited on by servants, the sword above him, King Dionysus by the door, the reverse with scrolling gold-lustre foliage with ruby-lustre stems, the center inscribed in blue with ·1535· / L’inquieta vita del / tirann’ Dionysi · / ·F·X· / ·R· above a lustred scrolling flourish within a lustred band, with printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 319' for Édouard de Rothschild

10 1/8 in. (25.9 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), by 1878.

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 4097).

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. 393/7).

Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Cited by Alfred Darcel, ‘Le moyen-âge et la renaissance au Trocadéro: 4e article: Les faïences italiennes’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 2nd series, 18, 1878, p. 974.

Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I.



Exhibited

Paris, Trocadero, Exposition Universelle, May-November 1878.
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