Property from a Swiss Private Collection, Lots 630–637 formerly in the Rothschild Collection
Italian, Possibly Siena, circa 1485-1500
Istoriato Plate with the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
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February 7, 08:37 PM GMT
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30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Property from a Swiss Private Collection, Lots 630–637 formerly in the Rothschild Collection
Italian, Possibly Siena, circa 1485-1500
Istoriato Plate with the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
painted with the city of Cologne in the distance, Saint Ursula stands with an arrow piercing her chest, surrounded by ten virgins, all on a ship in the River Rhine; the banderoles inscribed in Gothic script, on the left: ADDUCE[N]TUR.REGI.VIRGINES.POST.EAM (Psalm 45, 14; Psalm 44, 15 in the Latin Vulgate Bible) [Virgins will be brought to the king, following her] on the right: O.QUA[M].PULCHRA.EST.CASTA.GENERATIO.[C]U[M].CLARI[TA TE]
(Book of Wisdom, 4, 1 in the Latin Vulgate text) [Oh how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory]
a 19th-century label on the reverse reading “K G 12/L.176” [i.e. “Keramik Gustave” de Rothschild] and inventory number in red paint “560 E R” [i.e. Elie de Rothschild]
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
diameter: 13 ⅜ in.; 34 cm.
Baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829-1911);
Thence by inheritance to Baron Robert de Rothschild (1880-1946);
Thence by inheritance to Cecile de Rothschild (1913-199 5);
Thence by inheritance to Baron Elie de Rothschild (1917-2007);
Chefs d'oeuvre d'une grande collection européenne, Christie's Paris, 5 November 2014, lot 6.
Paris, Palais de l'Industrie, Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosité exposés au Musée Rétrospectif ouvert au Palais de l’Industrie en 1865, exhibited by Baron Gustave de Rothschild, catalogued as Cafaggiolo.
Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosité exposés au Musée Rétrospectif ouvert au Palais de l’Industrie en 1865, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1865, cat. no. 2685;
The Rothschild Archive, London, 000/1037, box 122: Inventair apres le deces de Monsieur le baron Gustave a Rothschild, A. Cottin notary, April 26 - June 10 1912, no. 559 “pat en ancienne faience de Sienne, navire rempli de saintes K12 estime douze mille cinq cent francs” (Dish in old Siena earthenware, vessel filled with saints K12 estimated at twelve thousand five hundred francs) (Hotel avenue Marigny, Salon rouge);
The Rothschild Archive, London, 000/1037, box 47: Hotel Avenue Marigny 23 [Baron Robert de Rothschild's donation project], 1924, no. 560: “Plat en ancienne faience de Sienne, navire rempli de saintes (K12) 12 500” (Plate in old Siena earthenware, vessel filled with saints (K12) 12,500);
The Rothschild Archive, London, 000/1037, box 36: Monsieur le baron Robert de Rothschild, Hotel Avenue Marigny, Tableaux et objets d’art [Inventory after the death of Baron Robert de Rothschild]. S.d. [circa 1946], n. 560/559: “Plat en ancienne faience de Sienna, navire rempli de saintes. 12 500” (Dish in old Sienna earthenware, vessel filled with saints. 12,500).