CIRCA 1510-1520, PROBABLY GUBBIO OR POSSIBLY DERUTA

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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED LUSTRED VASE
CIRCA 1510-1520, PROBABLY GUBBIO OR POSSIBLY DERUTA
With two strap handles, the waisted neck lustred with a candelieri grotesques edged in shades of blue with winged sphinxes, martial trophies, masks, snails and other creatures, the lower body lustred with foliage in panels, on a waisted foot, the underside with a printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 98' for Edouard de Rothschild
11 ½ in. (29 cm.) high

Provenance

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 4047).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 18 June 1945 (MCCP no. 53/2).
Returned to France on 25 June 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

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Lot Essay

For a vase in the Wallace Collection of related form with handles curving at a slightly higher angle and a rounded shoulder, see A.V.B. Norman, Catalogue of Ceramics 1: Pottery, Maiolica, Faience, Stoneware, London, 1976, pp. 137-138, no. 64. Although the form is associated more often with Deruta than Gubbio, the brilliance of the lustre suggests that it may be from Gubbio.

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