Details
AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER
POSSIBLY 1545-1551
Painted with The Judgment of Paris, with Paris handing a golden apple to the victor Venus as Juno and Minerva console one another, in a mountainous landscape with distant buildings, Apollo in his chariot above with Zeus, Diana and other gods and attendants, the border with bands of cable and bead ornament enclosing figures, drapery, lions and masks centered above by a martial trophy and below by a festoon and strapwork with a lion’s mask, the reverse with an inscription DELE TRE IGNVDE DEE GIVDICA PARIS
16 5/8 in. (42.2 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 4059).
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. 1275/1).
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.
Details
AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER
POSSIBLY 1545-1551
Painted with The Judgment of Paris, with Paris handing a golden apple to the victor Venus as Juno and Minerva console one another, in a mountainous landscape with distant buildings, Apollo in his chariot above with Zeus, Diana and other gods and attendants, the border with bands of cable and bead ornament enclosing figures, drapery, lions and masks centered above by a martial trophy and below by a festoon and strapwork with a lion’s mask, the reverse with an inscription DELE TRE IGNVDE DEE GIVDICA PARIS
16 5/8 in. (42.2 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 4059).
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. 1275/1).
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.
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