CIRCA 1435-1460, VALENCIA, PROBABLY MANISES

Details

A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND LUSTRED CHARGER
CIRCA 1435-1460, VALENCIA, PROBABLY MANISES
The center decorated in gold lustre with a crowned eagle, emblematic of the Holy Roman Emperor, displaying its wings against a ground of bryony and fern leaves, the well with a blue girdle band edged with lustred scalloped ornament tipped with foliage, the reverse lustred with a sunburst centered by a face, the border with spirals and foliate motifs, with three paper labels, a printed label for Alphonse de Rothschild, a label inscribed '28.' in sepia ink, and a printed 1946 Musée de l’Orangerie label inscribed '152' in pencil
18 in. (45.5 cm.) diameter

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 no. R 4003).
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. 388/4).
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. II.
Les chefs-d’œuvre des collections privées Françaises, retrouvés en Allemagne, 1946, p. 67, no. 180.

Exhibited

Paris, Orangerie de Tuileries, Les Chefs-d’Oeuvre des Collections Privées Françaises, June-August 1946, no. 180.

Conditions of sale

Lot Essay

The band with the lustred scalloped edge tipped with foliage, some tri-lobed, is derived from the crown of Aragón, a decorative motif which occurs on Valencian lusterware in the first half of the fifteenth century.

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