ROUEN, circa 1725-1730 Large round ceremonial... Lot 50

ROUEN, circa 1725-1730 Large round ceremonial dish from the old Rothschild collection in earthenware with ochre decoration on a blue background: in the centre, two musician loves in front of a column, a table and a frame, one sitting on a drapery, carrying on his knees an open score and holding a rolled parchment in his raised right hand, inscribed in a large circular medallion with ochre decoration of a canopy, trellis and broad foliated scrolls, in a larger medallion decorated with radiating blue fleurons and a border with ochre trellis on a blue background. The wing is decorated in amours ochre holding two bottles seated on a barrel, alternating with masks of Bacchus and Flora on a blue background decorated with foliated foliage and trellis scrolls in ochre with a niello effect, the edge underlined with simulated gadroons in ochre on a black background. 18th century, circa 1725-1730. Diam. 56 cm. (a chip on the reverse of the border, a slight lack on the heel). Provenance: - former James de Rothschild collection, - former Gustave de Rothschild collection, - former Robert de Rothschild collection in 1932, - Pierre Vandermeersch, - former Monmélien collection, sale in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Paul Renaud, 6 December 1983, n°51, 420.000 F, - private collection, Vienna; by descent. Large round earthenware dish from the former Rothschild collection, with niello ochre decoration on a blue background, a counterpart to the version of the Louvre. Rouen around 1725-1730. Certificate from the Art Loss Register, London. Certificate of free circulation. Exhibition: - Retrospective exhibition of French faience at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1932, n°527. Bibliography: - reproduced in the Répertoire de la faïence française, 1933, illustrated on plate 87, volume Rouen, - Faïences française, catalogue of the exhibition at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1980. Copy cited on p. 214 as the flat counterpart of the Gérard bequest kept at the L