Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

A Meissen two-handled circular olio pot and cover, Circa 1726-27

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen two-handled circular olio pot and cover, Circa 1726-27

decorated in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding on either side of the pot with a lady holding a long upright stem of flowers beside banded hedges issuing flowering branches and plants beneath a border of floral and scroll motifs on the everted rim, the cover with a running boy holding a flower stem, further banded hedges and a mythical beast, set on either side with an angular handle and raised on three short gilt-heightened feet, unmarked.

Height: 5⅝ in.

14.2 cm

Probably the example, Haenert Collection, Halle A. S., sold, Jacob Hecht, Kunst-Auktions-Haus, Berlin, May 23-24, 1927, lot 654;

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 228 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 251 (acquired between 1936 and 1939);

Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague (acquired from the Estate of the above in 1941 on behalf of the Sonderauftrag Linz for the proposed Führermuseum);

On deposit at Kloster Stift Hohenfurth;

On deposit at Salzbergwerk Bad Aussee;

Recovered from the above by Allied Monuments Officers and transferred to the Central Collecting Point Munich (MCCP inv. no. 1638/9);

Repatriated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;

Loaned by the Dutch State to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam in 1952 and transferred to the museum in 1960;

Restituted by the above to the heirs of Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer in 2021

Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 23, cat. no. 157

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 216, cat. no. 133

Ulrich Pietsch and Claudia Banz, Triumph of the blue swords: Meissen porcelain for aristocracy and bourgeoisie 1720-1815, exh. cat., Dresden, 2010, cat. no. 203

Dresden, Japanese Palace, 2010, cat. no. 203

This form derives from a Japanese prototype, an example of which was acquired for Augustus the Strong's Collection in 1723. An olio pot of this form and decoration, lacking its cover is in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim, illustrated in Weber, 2013, Band II, p. 56, kat. 35, who illustrates a slightly earlier example of the form and pattern, kat. 34