Name: A FRENCH PALISSY-STYLE EARTHENWARE PIERCED DISH
Brand: 19TH CENTURY
Price: 5500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

With a central round depression glazed to resemble to jasper in blue, green and purple, the reticulated border with the entwined initials H & C for Henri II and Catherine de’ Medici, the underside with a printed label from the Exposition Rétrospective de 1900 with the inscription B^onAlphonse de Rothschild, as well as printed labels inscribed 'P. 48 /E. de R./38' for Édouard de Rothschild, 'G. Chem' and a label inscribed 430.
9³⁄₄ in. (24.8 cm.) diameter

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 4108).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 18 June 1945 (MCCP no. 115/5).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

Alexandre Sauzay, Henri Delange, Carle Delange and C. Borneman, Monographie de l’œuvre de Bernard Palissy su’vie d'un choix de ses continuateurs ou imitateurs, Paris, 1862, pl. 27.
Alfred Tainturier, Les terres émaillées de Bernard Palissy inventeur des rustiques figulines, Paris, 1863, p. 39 and 82, no. 41.
Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 830.
Collection de Mr. Le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1890, (n.d.), vol. II, pl. 32.
Henry Roujon, Emile Molinier, Frantz Marcou, Catalogue officiel illustré de l’Exposition rétrospective de l’art français des origines jusqu’à 1800, Exposition Universelle, 1900, no. 917.
Germaine de Rothschild, Serge Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, pl. 6, no. IX.

Exposition Rétrospective de l’Art français des origines à 1800.
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, no. 917.

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Since the 19th century, the decoration on dishes of this type has been interpreted as representing the initials of King Henri II of France, Catherine de' Medici and Diane de Poitiers, and were believed to date prior to 1559, the year of Henry II's death. Recent studies of post-Palissy ceramics, however, have shown that they cannot be dated before the first half of the 17^thcentury. This monogram, therefore, should instead be interpreted as a posthumous reference.

Two others dish of this model were successively sold at the following auctions: in 1850 in the Préaux collection, in 1859 in the Rattier collection and in 1890 in the Baron Sellière collection (catalogue des objets d’arts composant le cabinet de Monsieur Préaux, Paris, 9-11 January 1850, lot 203-204, Catalogue des objets omposeomposé le cabinet de feu M. Rattier, Paris, 21-24 March 1859, lot 77-78, Collection de Feu Mr le Baron Achille Seillière, provenant du château de Mello, auction sale Paris, Me Paul Chevalier, 5-10 May 1890, lot 94-95). A similar dish is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (C.2317-1910).