With a flat rim and deep well, standing on a low circular foot, an applied lizard at the center amid a blue and manganese ground, the flat rim molded in low relief with a border of formal foliage and scrolls colored in green, yellow and manganese, the underside with labels inscribed '426' and 'Einsatzstab R nr. 4103'
9⁷⁄₈ in. (25.2 cm.) diameter

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 4103).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 113/2).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

Collection de Mr. Le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1890, (n.d.), vol. II, pl. 37.

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Lot Essay

A similar dish, formerly in the collection of baron Gustave de Rothschild, then by descent with Sir Philip Sassoon and the Countess of Rocksavage, was sold at Christie’s, London, 26 November 1919, lot 53. It is now preserved in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (museum no. C.141-1933) and illustrated in Léonard Amico, A la recherche du Paradis Terrestre, Bernard Palissy et ses continuateurs, 1996, no. 98, p. 115. A dish of the same model without a lizard in the center is kept in the Musée national de la Renaissance, Ecouen, France.

COMPARABLE LITERATURE
Alexandre Sauzay, Henri Delange, Carle Delange and C. Borneman, Monographie de l’oeuvre de Bernard Palissy suivie d’un choix de ses continuateurs ou imitateurs, Paris, 1862, pl. 15.
Alfred Tainturier, Les terres émaillées de Bernard Palissy inventeur des rustiques figulines, Paris, 1863, p. 76, no. 21.
Léonard Amico, “Les céramiques rustiques authentiques de Bernard Palissy”, Revue de l’Art, 1987, no. 78, p. 64-65
Léonard Amico, A la recherche du Paradis Terrestre, Bernard Palissy et ses continuateurs, 1996, no. 98, p. 115.