CIRCA 1600-1650, NORMANDY, MANERBE OR PRE D’AUGE, FROM THE 'MAITRE AU PIED OCRE' WORKSHOP

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A FRENCH POST-PALISSY EARTHENWARE OVAL FOOTED 'NYMPHE DE FONTAINEBLEAU' DISH

CIRCA 1600-1650, NORMANDY, MANERBE OR PRE D’AUGE, FROM THE 'MAITRE AU PIED OCRE' WORKSHOP

Price Realised USD 18,900

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The center decorated in relief with a nude nymph seated on the ground, resting her left arm on a large overturned amphora from which flows a stream of water, attended by two hounds, the edge with radiating rays and foliage, the underside marbled in yellow, green and purple and the inside of the foot glazed in ochre, the underside with printed labels for the Union central exhibition in 1865 with number 189/4223, 'P. 48 /E. de R./19' for Édouard de Rothschild, 'Einsatzstab R nr. 4124', 'G. Chem', 'T.B.' and with number 447
11¹⁄₈ in. (28.4 cm.) long

Possibly Prince Pierre Soltykoff collection, his sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Pillet, 8 April-1 May 1861, lot 538.
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 4124).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 113/7).
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

Collection de Mr. Le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1890, (n.d.), vol. II, pl. 18.
Germaine de Rothschild, Serge Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, pl. 10, no. XVI.

Paris, Palais de l’Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, 1865, no. 857.

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The scene on this dish is based on a print begun by the skilled Parisian engraver Pierre Milan and finished several years later by an assistant to Milan, René Boyvin. The original composition is after a fresco by Rosso Fiorentino ('Il Rosso') in the Galerie François 1er in Fontainebleau. The subject refers to the origin of the name of Fontainebleau: Fontainebleau derives from the name of a hound, Bleau, which Saint Louis IX, King of France, held dear. The animal is said to have discovered a spring during a hunt. The old forest of Brière then took the name of the "Fontaine de Bleau": Fontainebleau.
A dish of this model was in the Prince Soltykoff collection sold in Paris, 8 April-1 May 1861, lot 538. It was bought by Mannheim for 511 francs. Since Alphonse de Rothschild acquired a number of Italian maiolica works in this sale through Mannheim, it is possible that the present dish comes from the Soltykoff collection.
A similar dish is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (see Alan Gibbon, Céramiques de Bernard Palissy, 1986, no. 85, p. 119) and a dish with the same scene but a different border is in the Wallace Collection ((museum no. 168, see A. V. B. Norman¸ Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Ceramics, Pottery, Maiolica, Faïence, Stoneware, London, 1976, p. 324).