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A DERUTA MAIOLIA GOLD AND RUBY LUSTRED FOOTED DISH (COPPA)
CIRCA 1525-1540, PROBABLY BY NICOLA FRANCIOLI (CALLED ‘CO’)
Painted in shades of blue with Cupid and Venus riding sea-monsters, Cupid’s arrow and quiver and Venus’s tiara and fluttering robe enriched in yellow, the sea rendered in blue and gold lustre, one monster’s tongue enriched in ruby lustre, the distance with a fortified town and boats, blue mountains and a brushed sky above, the reverse with scrolls radiating around the foot, the rim with a band of crossed ornament, with various labels including an Union Centrale exhibition label
11 1/8 in. (28.2 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), by 1865.
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 4016).
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. 343/9).
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. 247, no. 2711.
Cited by Alfred Darcel, ‘Le moyen-âge et la renaissance au Trocadéro: 4e article: Les faïences italiennes’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 2nd series, 18, 1878, p. 979.
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, no. 2711.
Paris, Trocadero, Exposition Universelle, May-November 1878.