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Leeds Factory (England)
about 1775
Object PlaceEngland
Medium/TechniqueCreamware, Dutch enamel decoration
DimensionsDiameter: 25.4cm (10in.)
Credit LineGift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson
Accession number59.855
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
InscriptionsIt is inscribed "MARIA EN JOSP/EN HET KINDEK" on front. On underside, circular collector's label: "Oscar Bondy / Wien / No. 354"Provenance1938, Oscar Bondy (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Elisabeth Bondy, Vienna; 1938, confiscated from Oscar and Elisabeth Bondy by Nazi forces (no. OB 863) [see note 1]; acquired by the Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria; 1947, released by the Landesmuseum to the American Military Government in Austria, and subsequently returned to Elisabeth Bondy, New York [see note 2]; probably sold by Mrs. Bondy to Blumka Gallery, New York [see note 3]; October 30, 1959, sold by Blumka to R. Thornton Wilson (b. 1886 - d. 1977), New York; 1959, gift of R. Thornton Wilson to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 12, 1959)

NOTES:
[1] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Oscar and Elisabeth Bondy were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. This plate is listed in a Nazi-generated inventory of the collection (July 4, 1938; Vienna, BDA-Archiv, Restitutions-Materialen, K 8/1), as no. 488 ("Majolikateller, Darstellung Flucht nach Ägypten, D=25, holländisch, 18. Jh.").

[2] The plate is included on a list of works of "art objects which are overturned to us from confiscated properties and they are already presented to the respective Section of the American Military and Austrian Government" (May 30, 1947, from the Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum to the American Military Government, Salzburg). National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, Microfilm Publication M1926. Records of the Reparations and Restitutions Branch of the U.S. Allied Commission for Austria (USACA) Section, 1945-1950.

[3] Mr. Bondy and his wife left Europe and emigrated to the United States, where he passed away in 1944. In the years following World War II, much of his collection was restituted to his widow and subsequently sold on the New York art market, particularly through Blumka Gallery. For further on Oscar Bondy, see Sophie Lillie, "Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens" (Vienna, 2003), 216-245.