SELECTED PIECES
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VASE PAINTED ON EACH SIDE WITH AN EARLY VIEW OF THE CAPITOL AND THE ALLEGORY OF THE TRADE AND SHIPPING
KPM BERLIN (Germany)
KÖNIGLICHE PORZELLAN MANUFAKTUR
Hard-paste porcelain, enamels
Französische Vase Nr. 3
Circa 1836
H. 41,4 cm ; W. 23,5 cm ; D. 17,5 cm
Provenance
Christie’s, London, June 12, 1995, lot 300.
Twinight Collection, New York, U.S.A.
A LARGE VASE DEPICTING
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF CYPARISSUS
TRIANGLE MARK WORKSHOP PAINTER (attributed to)
URBINO (Italy)
Tin-glazed earthenware
Circa 1570-80
H. 58 cm ; W. handles : 42,5 cm
After
An engraving by Bernard Salomon (1506-1561), Cipariffe en cipres, taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses published by Jean de Tournes, Lyon, 1557.
Provenance
Private collection, France.
Similar models
Two vases held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv.4697, 4698-1858).
A PAIR OF CHAMOIS GROUND VASES
« ÉTRUSQUES LAGRENÉE » WITH SCROLL SWAN HEAD HANDLES DECORATED ON EACH SIDE WITH FEMALE DANCERS IN ALMOND-SHAPE RESERVE AND FINE ARABESQUES
JEAN-JACQUES LAGRENÉE (active 1785-1800) (Designer)
JEAN-PIERRE FUMEZ (active 1777-1804) (Figurative painter)
LÉOPOLD WEYDINGER (active 1757-1806) (Flower and arabesque painter)
SÈVRES (France)
NATIONAL MANUFACTORY OF PORCELAIN
Hard-paste porcelain, enamels, gold
Circa 1795
H. 38 cm ; D. 26 cm
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed on one vase : « Sèvres, R. F. »
Provenance
Dragesco-Cramoisan, Paris, 1996
Versace Collection, 1996-97, Inv. 1317
Sotheby’s, 18 mars 2009, lot 291
Private Italian Collection.
Related models
Sèvres, Manufacture et musée nationaux, Inv. MNC15495.1-2
Saint-Pétersbourg, Hermitage Museum, Inv. ЗФ-24520.
PANNEAU D’ASSIETES :
LES GRANDS SERVICES DE SÈVRES XIXe
PILGRIM'S FLASK
Marked AK on the base for the "De Grieksche A" workshop under the ownership of Adrianus Kocx (1687-1701)
Delft, The Netherlands
Circa 1690
Tin-glazed earthenware
De Grieksche A (The Greek A) is considered as one of the most famous and prestigious Delftware factories of the Dutch Golden Age. The excavation in the Paleis het Loo have shown that the delicate blue and white objects that were created during his ownership were also highly appreciated by the House of Orange. In 1685, Adrianus Kocx became the owner of the factory. His ownership corresponds to the creation of a wide variety of new shapes. In 1685, he became the official architect of William III, Prince of Orange, who entrusted him with the decoration of his residence, Paleis Het Loo. In order to decorate the palace, Queen Mary, who developed an unequalled passion for Delftware, commissioned many objects from De Grieksche A. According to Van Dam, this type of flask may have been “part of a table service, the round shape borrowed from an originally mid 16th century Italian idea”.
VASE A ISTORIATO DEPICTING
THE STORY OF GIDEON
GUIDO FONTANA (1490-1576) or ORAZIO FONTANA (1510-1571) (workshop of )
URBINO (Italy)
Tin glazed earthenware
circa 1550
H: 39 cm ; D. 27 cm
Provenance
Collection Paul Delore (1864-1940), Château d’Ouilly, France.
Collection Antoinette Delore married Lebon
Collection Bernard Lebon, who died in 1991
Collection Etienne Lebon to this day
ISTORIATO BASIN PAINTED WITH DIANA AND ACTAEON AND THE MAGEN DAVID INCORPORATED IN THE KNOTWORK BORDER
SIENA (Italy)
Circa 1500-1510
Tin-glazed earthenware
D. 48,2 cm
Labels
“P. 48 / E. de R. / 120” for Édouard de Rothschild
Musée de l’Orangerie printed label inscribed “141” in pencil
Provenance
Most likely commissioned for an important Jewish patron in Siena circa 1510 Probably Count Ferdinando Pasolini Dall’Onda, Faenza Probably Count Benvenuto Pasolini Dall’Onda Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4052) 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. 348⁄10) Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family Exhibitions Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865 Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Les Chefs-d’œuvre des Collections Privées Françaises, June-August 1946 Publications Luigi Frati, Del Museo Pasolini in Faenza, Descrizione, Bologna, 1852, no. 12 [if Pasolini]. Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosité exposés au Musée Rétrospectif ouvert au Palais de l’Industrie en 1865, Paris, Librairie centrale, 1867, no. 2683. Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900, Vol. I. Les Chefs-d’œuvre des collections privées Françaises, retrouvés en Allemagne par la Commission de Récupération Artistique et les Services Alliés, Paris, Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, 1946, p. 65, no. 167.
TRILOBED BASIN, BACILE BRONZO A TRE ANGOLI DECORATED WITH FOUR SCENES OF JOSEPH’S HISTORY IN EGYPT FROM THE FIGURE DEL VECCHIO TESTAMENTO BY BERNARD SALOMON
Workshop of Orazio Fontana (1510 -1571) or workshop of Flaminio Fontana (active 1571-1591)
URBINO (Italy)
Circa 1565-1575
Tin-glazed earthenware
Measurements: 47 x 45 x 5 cm.
Provenance
Eugen Gutmann (1840-1925), Munich (since 1911 at least) then Amsterdam Maybe his son, Friedrich « Fritz » Bernhard Eugen Gutmann (1886-1944), Heemstde (Pays-Bas), since 1925 Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam, since before 1932 Title transferred to the Mendelssohn Bank, Amsterdam, since 1934, but remained in Mannheimer House Bought in October 1941 by Adolf Hitler with the Dienststelle Mülmann by order of Hans Posse for the Führermuseum in Linz – that was never finished Discovered by the in a saltmine in Bohemia or Austria Received February 15th 1946 at the (Bundesarchiv, B323/651 ; Restitution Card file n° 1572/16) Returned to the State of Holland February 15th 1946 and then sold in auction ([…], Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 14-21 October 1952, n° 469 : « Urbino, Orazio Fontana, vers 1560. – Plat de forme triangulaire à bords arrondis et à trois cavités, décor polychrome à quatre scènes de la vie de Joseph en Egypte. Le fond est entièrement glaçuré et travaillé en relief en forme de cygnes. – Ecailles restaurées. – Diam. 47 cm. Provenance, Guidolbaldo II, Duc d’Urbino (1571). » ; non illustrated) Veneziani Gallery, Rome (in 1964 at least) Private Collection (Christie’s London, 12 juin 1995, « The property of a lady », n° 367, illustrated) Private Collection, Italy
