A French lead-glazed earthenware gondola cup, probably Fontainebleau or Paris

Circa 1600 – 1650
H 8.5 x L 19 x l 11 cm — Ht 3 ¼ x L 7 ½ x  Wd 4 ¼ in.

Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905)
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 Paris in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4173)
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 340/8)
Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild familBaron Guy de Rothschild (1909-2007), Hôtel Lambert, Paris, and by descent