DATED 1546

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A DERUTA DATED EWER-STAND
DATED 1546
The central medallion painted with Saint Barbara holding a tower and a martyr’s palm frond in a stylized landscape, enclosed by a white band inscribed DIVA · BARBARA · ORA · PRO · NOBIS, the orange-ground well reserved with molded a candelieri grotesques, the border molded with a fruiting and flowering garland interspersed by masks and martial trophies, the reverse inscribed with the date in blue, with various labels including an Union Centrale exhibition label and printed label inscribed 'P. 48 / E. de R./ 125' for Édouard de Rothschild
14 5⁄8 in. (37.1 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 4011).
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. 343/4).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

Literature

Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosité exposés au Musée Rétrospectif ouvert au Palais de l’Industrie en 1865, Paris, 1866, p. 245, no. 2689.
Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I.

Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, 2689.

Conditions of sale

Descrizione dettagliata lotto

A stand with the same molded decoration around a central portrait, dated 1546, is in the Musée du Louvre; see Jeanne Giacomotti, Les majoliques des Musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, pp. 204-205, no. 663.

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