A GUBBIO MAIOLICA DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED DISH
A GUBBIO MAIOLICA DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED DISH
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A GUBBIO MAIOLICA DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED DISH

DATED 1526, WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI

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A GUBBIO MAIOLICA DATED GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED DISH
DATED 1526, WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI
The recessed center painted in yellow, ochre, blue, grey, black and lustre with Cupid in a landscape, Cupid holding his bow and looking over his shoulder, enclosed by a lustred well, the blue-ground border reserved with palmettes and foliage issuing from scrolls enriched in green and gold and ruby lustre, the reverse with concentric lines and bands of ruby lustre
11 3⁄8 in. (29 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 4036).
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. 339/10).
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, pl. 55b.

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