CIRCA 1600-1650, PROBABLY PARIS OR PRE D’AUGE

Name: TWO FRENCH POST-PALISSY EARTHENWARE OVAL SALT-CELLARS
Brand: CIRCA 1600-1650, PROBABLY PARIS OR PRE D’AUGE
Price: 13000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 16,380

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TWO FRENCH POST-PALISSY EARTHENWARE OVAL SALT-CELLARS

CIRCA 1600-1650, PROBABLY PARIS OR PRE D’AUGE

Price Realised USD 16,380

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Each formed as an oval bowl with a gadrooned edge, supported at its ends by two harpy-likes creatures with masks, flowers and leaves between them, the underside with a printed label from the Union central exhibition in 1865 with number 189/4228, a label inscribed 'A. de R. N°' for Alphonse de Rothschild, a label from the 1900 Exhibition inscribed B^onAlphonse de Rothschild, a label inscribed 'P. 48 E. de R. 60' for Édouard de Rothschild, as well as a label inscribed 'G. Chem', and several labels with various numbers
4³⁄₄ in. (12 cm.), long; 4 in. (10 cm.) high

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 4154 a & b).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Alt Aussee salt mines, Austria (no. 263), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP nos. 337/10 and 337/11).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 832.
Franck, L’ Art ancien, photographies des collections célèbres, Paris, 1868, Vol. IV.
Collection de Mr. Le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1890, (n.d.), vol. II, pl. 20.
Germaine de Rothschild, Serge Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, pl. 15, no. XXXV.

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 832.

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