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Lot Essay
The present ewers were presumably made from a mold taken directly from one of the pewter ewers made by François Briot around 1585-1590. These ewers correspond with the Temperance dishes, lot 170 of the present sale.
In his review of the Exhibition of 1878 at the Trocadéro, published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Alfred Darcel reports that Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905) paid the enormous sum of 25,000 francs to acquire one of these two ewers from an inhabitant of Le Mans (A. Darcel, 'Le Moyen-Age et la Renaissance au Trocadéro', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1878, p. 982).
A similar ewer is held in the Wallace Collection (A. V. B. Norman, Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Ceramics, Pottery, Maiolica, Faïence, Stoneware, London, 1976, C175, pp. 332-333), and another is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (acc. no. 53-225.29). The example formerly in the Fountaine collection sold by Christie’s, London, 16 June 1884, lot 95 is illustrated in Alexandre Sauzay, Henri Delange, Carle Delange and C. Borneman, Monographie de l'oeuvre de Bernard Palissy suivie d'un choix de ses continuateurs ou imitateurs, Paris, 1862, pl. 18.
In his review of the Exhibition of 1878 at the Trocadéro, published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Alfred Darcel reports that Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905) paid the enormous sum of 25,000 francs to acquire one of these two ewers from an inhabitant of Le Mans (A. Darcel, 'Le Moyen-Age et la Renaissance au Trocadéro', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1878, p. 982).
A similar ewer is held in the Wallace Collection (A. V. B. Norman, Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Ceramics, Pottery, Maiolica, Faïence, Stoneware, London, 1976, C175, pp. 332-333), and another is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (acc. no. 53-225.29). The example formerly in the Fountaine collection sold by Christie’s, London, 16 June 1884, lot 95 is illustrated in Alexandre Sauzay, Henri Delange, Carle Delange and C. Borneman, Monographie de l'oeuvre de Bernard Palissy suivie d'un choix de ses continuateurs ou imitateurs, Paris, 1862, pl. 18.