Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Property from the Collection of Martin and Helene Schwalberg
A Meissen Chinoiserie Beaker Vase, Circa 1739
Lot Closed
October 17, 04:13 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen Chinoiserie Beaker Vase, Circa 1739
of flared form, painted in the manner of Johann Ehrenfried Stadler, with three Chinoiserie figures holding fans, flanked by large flowering branches of indianische Blumen in underglaze blue enriched in enamels, gilt-edged rim, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed number 23
height 4 3/4 in., 12 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (by 1927) (no. 117);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 245 (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. 2367/2);
Repatriated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;
Dr Fritz Mannheimer Collection, Amsterdam, sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, October 14-21, 1952, lot 328;
Christie's London, July 7, 1997, lot 304
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Margarete and Franz Oppenheimer Collection. Meissen porcelain , Berlin, 1927, no. 117, pl. 46
A vase of this form and decoration sold at Christie's New York, June 6, 2013, lot 327.
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.
This work is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between its current owners and the heirs of Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer.