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A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND GOLD-LUSTRED ARMORIAL LARGE DEEP DISH OR BASIN
A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND GOLD-LUSTRED ARMORIAL LARGE DEEP DISH OR BASIN
A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND GOLD-LUSTRED ARMORIAL LARGE DEEP DISH OR BASIN
A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND GOLD-LUSTRED ARMORIAL LARGE DEEP DISH OR BASIN
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A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND GOLD-LUSTRED ARMORIAL LARGE DEEP DISH OR BASIN

THIRD QUARTER OF THE 15TH CENTURY, VALENCIA, PROBABLY MANISES

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A LARGE HISPANO-MORESQUE EARTHENWARE BLUE AND GOLD-LUSTRED ARMORIAL LARGE DEEP DISH OR BASIN
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 15TH CENTURY, VALENCIA, PROBABLY MANISES
Of angular form with a deep recess, decorated in dark blue and lustre, the center with a shield with an impaled arms and edged in dark-blue against a ground of radiating scrolling ataurique leaves spaced by other leaves and large dark-blue stylized flowerheads, the reverse similarly decorated within a border of interconnecting lozenges, the center with concentric circles centering a flowerhead, with various paper labels including one inscribed 'Mr Alphonse de Rothschild no 1', another inscribed 'A708 / IMG00 [?]' and collection label for Edouard de Rothschild inscribed 'P 48 / 2'
19 5⁄8 in. (50 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 Paris in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4005).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 388/6).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. II.

Lot Essay

The arms are currently unidentified. For a large deep armorial dish with related foliate and blue flower decoration in the Museum Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ter Potterie, Bruges, see Marco Spallanzani, Maioliche Ispano-Moresche a Firenze, Florence, 2006, p. 295, pl. 78, and p. 182. An armorial dish with related decoration in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, is illustrated by Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898, London, 2000, p. 81, no. 171.

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