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