In the shape of a dolphin, painted with light blue scales and manganese fins, its head highlighted in green, manganese and grey, the reverse with printed labels inscribed 'P. 48 /E. de R./78' for Édouard de Rothschild and 'Einsatzstab R nr. 4158'
13 in. (33 cm.) high

Possibly Emile Gavet collection; 31 May-9 June 1897, lot 557 and 559 (part).
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 4158).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 340/5).
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. 33.
Henry Roujon, Emile Molinier, Frantz Marcou, Catalogue officiel illustré de l’Exposition rétrospective de l’art français des origines jusqu’à 1800, Exposition Universelle, 1900, no. 921.
Germaine de Rothschild, Serge Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, pl. 39, no. XLI.

Exposition Rétrospective de l’Art français des origines à 1800
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, no. 921.

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