Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

A Meissen enamelled figure of a seated pagod, the porcelain Circa 1720, the decoration Circa 1730

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen enamelled figure of a seated pagod, the porcelain Circa 1720, the decoration Circa 1730

modelled wearing a colorful flower-patterned robe, his right fist resting upon his raised knee, unmarked.

Height: 3½ in.

8.9 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 287 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 161 (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. 1571/14);

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. 18, cat. no. 88

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 422, cat. no. 309

The simplified modelling of this figure corresponds to one which was in the first inventory of Augustus the Strong's Meissen Collection at Holländische Palais, later to become the Japanese Palace. The 1721 inventory lists under no. 88: 6 Stk. do. Kleinere 3 1/2 Z. hoch [6 ditto small (seated pagodas with open mouths) 3 1/2 Z[oll] high], published in Böttgersteinzeug Böttgerporzellan, 1969, p. 46. A white figure bearing this number was sold at Phillips, London, June 9, 1999, lot 124. The 1721 inventory also lists under no. 90 an elaborate pierced porcelain pavilion featuring the same figure model, still retained in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, inv. no. PE 2186 illustrated in Pietsch, 1996, p. 65 alongside a close Kangxi prototype.