Ceramics

palissy-2025-A-French-post-Palissy-lead-glazed-earthenware-pierced-footed-dish
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A French lead-glazed earthenware pierced footed dish, Manerbe or Pré-d’Auge (Normandy), Maître au pied ocre workshop

 

Circa 1600 – 1650
Diameter: 30 cm. (11 3⁄4 in.) • Height: 7.5 cm. (3 in.)

Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905)
Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949)
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR nos. R 4112 or R 4114)
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 nos. 116/1 or 113/3)
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family
Baron Guy de Rothschild (1909-2007), Hôtel Lambert, Paris,
and by descent