Lot 511
Lot 511
A FRENCH POST-PALISSY EARTHENWARE PIERCED SHALLOW BOWL

CIRCA 1600-1650, PROBABLY PARIS OR FONTAINEBLEAU

Price Realised USD 7,560
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USD 1,000 - USD 1,500
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A FRENCH POST-PALISSY EARTHENWARE PIERCED SHALLOW BOWL

CIRCA 1600-1650, PROBABLY PARIS OR FONTAINEBLEAU

Price Realised USD 7,560
Price Realised USD 7,560
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The jaspered center surrounded by a wide radiating openwork band of arches, husks and flowers, the rim with knotted lanyards in relief, the reverse mottled, the underside with a printed label from the Union Central Exhibition in 1865 with number 189/4224, and printed labels inscribed 'A. de R. N° 23' for Alphonse de Rothschild, ‘P. 48 /E. de R./23’ for Edouard de Rothschild, ‘T.2’, ‘G. Chem’ and a label with number 2628
818 in. (20.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
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 4109).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 115/6).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Collection de Mr. Le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1890, (n.d.), vol. II, pl. 26.
Germaine de Rothschild, Serge Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, pl. 18, no. VIII.
Exhibited
Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 829.
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