Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A Meissen (K.P.F.) octagonal sugar box and a cover, Circa 1722-23
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen (K.P.F.) octagonal sugar box and a cover, Circa 1722-23
painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on the front and reverse of the box with figures at various pursuits within elaborate iron-red, Böttger lustre and gilt-edged elongated cartouches and on the sides with bird vignettes, the cover with figures and buildings beneath a cloudy sky and a gilt band and iron-red border around the rim edge, K.P.F mark in underglaze-blue.
Length: 4½ in.
11.4 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 275 in red);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 347 (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. 1616/20);
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. 26
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 112, cat. no. 61