Details
A LARGE URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER
CIRCA 1550-1570, PROBABLY GUIDO DURANTINO (FONTANA) OR ORAZIO FONTANA WORKSHOP
Painted with an expansive seascape, Venus standing on a palle on a shell chariot drawn by dolphins and sea-monsters in a procession with putti and nymphs and tritons frolicking and blowing horns, with towns on distant mountainous shores, Cupid flying above holding a garland of laurels, the four winds blowing from clouds on the right, the reverse inscribed De Venere con glia morini : in blue within concentric yellow band borders, with printed Alphonse de Rothschild collection label (with a coronet) and an Union Centrale exhibition label
17 ½ in. (44.5 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 4075).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1257/9).
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. 253, no. 2790.
Franck, L’art ancien. Photographies des collections célèbres par Franck, Paris, 1868, Vol. IV.
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. 2790.
Details
A LARGE URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER
CIRCA 1550-1570, PROBABLY GUIDO DURANTINO (FONTANA) OR ORAZIO FONTANA WORKSHOP
Painted with an expansive seascape, Venus standing on a palle on a shell chariot drawn by dolphins and sea-monsters in a procession with putti and nymphs and tritons frolicking and blowing horns, with towns on distant mountainous shores, Cupid flying above holding a garland of laurels, the four winds blowing from clouds on the right, the reverse inscribed De Venere con glia morini : in blue within concentric yellow band borders, with printed Alphonse de Rothschild collection label (with a coronet) and an Union Centrale exhibition label
17 ½ in. (44.5 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 4075).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1257/9).
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. 253, no. 2790.
Franck, L’art ancien. Photographies des collections célèbres par Franck, Paris, 1868, Vol. IV.
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. 2790.
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