Of octagonal form, the upper register decorated in relief with women each holding a palm and a bird, the lower register with women each holding a cornucopia, framed by foliate scrollwork on a gray ground, the upper terminal of the handle as a dolphin's head, the inside of the foot and ewer with a green glaze, the underside with printed labels inscribed ‘A. de R. 1308’ for Alphonse de Rothschild, 'P. 48 /E. de R./ 48' for Edouard de Rothschild, ‘Einsatzstab R nr. 4140’ and a label with number 456
8¹⁄₄ in. (21 cm.) high
Blue interlaced L’s, date letter G for 1760, painter's mark K for Charles-Nicolas Dodin

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg.
Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4140).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 18 June 1945 (MCCP no. 104/1).
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 (1827-1905)., circa 1890, (n.d.), vol. II, pl. 36.
Germaine de Rothschild, Serge Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, pl. 34, no. XXXIII

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