With molded figuals allegories of the three theological virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity, in three oval medallions spaced by three winged figures of Fame on a blue ground, the inside with a marbled ground, the underside with a printed labels inscribed ‘A. de R. N°’ for Alphonse de Rothschild, ‘P. 48 /E. de R./68’ for Édouard de Rothschild and ‘Einsatzstab R nr. 4142’, and four labels with numbers: 14 – a145 – 2603 – 434
7¹⁄₈ in. (18 cm.) high.

Possibly collection of Mr Préaux, his sale, catalogue des objets d’arts composant le cabinet de Monsieur Préaux, Paris, Me Bonnefons de Lavialle, 9-11 January 1850, lot 210.
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 4142).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 104/2).
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. 41.

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A similar ewer is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (museum no. MR 2339), purchased by the museum in 1825 from the collection of Edmé Antoine Durand (1768-1835). See 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, Louis Courajod, La Collection Durand et ses séries du Moyen âge et de la Renaissance au Musée du Louvre, 1888, p. 39, no. 78 and Gaston Migeon, Catalogue des faïences françaises et des grès allemands, musée du Louvre, 1901, no. 122.