Of baluster shape, the bulbous lower-body pierced with a repeating design of flowers and ribbons in relief, topped by a concave band of pierced ovals, the waisted neck pierced with strapwork enclosing shells, flowers and putto masks, the vasi-form nozzle applied with acanthus leaves and gadroons, the base with a printed from the Union central exhibition in 1865 with number 189/4221, a printed label inscribed ‘A. de R. N°’ for Alphonse de Rothschild, a printed label inscribed ‘P. 48 /E. de R./49’ for Édouard de Rothschild, a printed label inscribed ‘Einsatzstab R nr. 4157’, a label inscribed ‘G. Chem’, several labels with various numbers
12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm.) high

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 4157).
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. 340/4).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

Alexandre Sauzay, Henri Delange, Carle Delange and C. Borneman, Monographi’œuvreoeuvre de Bernard Pali’sy suivie d'un choix de ses continuateurs ou imitateurs, Paris, 1862, pl. 39.
Alfred Tainturier, Les terres émaillées de Bernard Palissy inventeur des rustiques figulines, Paris, 1863, no. 215.
Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 839.
Franck, L’ Art ancien, photographies des collections célèbres, Paris, 1868, Vol. IV.
Collection de Mr. Le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1890, (n.d.), vol. II, pl. 39.

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 839.

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A similar candlestick is preserved in the Musée de Sèvres and illustrated by Philippe Burty, Bernard Palissy, Paris 1886, p. 35.
A pair of similar candlesticks with a plain nozzle was in the Andrew Fountaine collection, Fountaine sa’e, Christie's, London, 16-19 June 1884, lot 167, also described in Alfred Tainturier, Les terres émaillées de Bernard Palissy inventeur des rustiques figulines, Paris, 1863, no. 216). A pair, possibly those from the Fountaine collection, is kept in the Wallace Collection (A. V. B. Norman¸ Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Ceramics, Pottery, Maiolica, Faïence, Stoneware, London, 1976, C166 & 167, pp. 322-323). A very similar nozzle is on top of a plain candlestick from the Sauvageot Collection preserved in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. A candlestick described as un flambeau à jours avec ornements en relief et mascarons which is likely of this model was in the Mr de Monville collection, his sale, Paris, 7-10 March 1837, lot 34.