The deep dish molded with a figure of Pomona or ‘la Belle Jardinière’ after Maerten de Vos, seated near a vase beneath a tree, holding a bouquet and a palm, a manor house and formal gardens in the background, the underside sponged in blue, manganese and green, the underside with a printed label from the Union central exhibition in 1865 with number 189/4210, and printed labels inscribed ‘A. de R. N°’ for Alphonse de Rothschild, ‘P. 48 /E. de R./33’ for Edouard de Rothschild, ‘Einsatzstab R nr. 4130’ and labels inscribed ‘T.3 and with number 431
13³⁄₈ in. (34 cm.) long

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 4130).
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. 116/3).
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, Monographie de l'oeuvre de Bernard Palissy suivie d'un choix de ses continuateurs ou imitateurs, Paris, 1862, pl. 52.
Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 851.
Collection de Mr. Le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1890, (n.d.), vol. II, pl. 32.
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. 932.
Germaine de Rothschild, Serge Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, pl. 24, no. XXI.

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 851.
Exposition Rétrospective de l’Art français des origines à 1800, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, no. 932.

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The scene on this dish is based on an engraving by Philis Galle (1537-1612) after a composition by Maerten de Vos (1532-1603). Two similar dishes (museum nos. OA1346 and OA 1347) are in the Musée du Louvre, Paris; see also Alan Gibbon, Céramiques de Bernard Palissy, 1986, no. 81, p. 117.