VENICE, CIRCA 1500

Details

A POLYCHROME ENAMEL FOOTED PLATE
VENICE, CIRCA 1500
parcel-gilt polychrome enamel, with spiralling gadroons; the underside with two paper labels inscribed 'P.48 / 228' and 'UNION / CENTRALE / 189 / 4177'
2 1⁄3 in. (5.7 cm.) high
10 2⁄3 in. (27 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Possibly 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 3801).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 190/1), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 196/1).
Returned to France on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

Literature

Musée rétrospectif, Palais de l'Industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie, exposition de 1865 : catalogue, exh. cat., Paris, 1867, p. 202, possibly no. 2379.

Exhibited

Possibly Musée Rétrospectif, Union centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'industrie, Paris, Palais de l'industrie, 10 August - 10 October 1865.

Conditions of sale

Lot Essay

The design of spiraling dragoons is typical for Venetian enamel plates from this period, however the turquoise enamel is a rare choice. A footed plate prominently featuring turquoise was sold from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, Christie’s, Paris, 23-25 February 2009, lot 617.

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