Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A Meissen milk jug, Circa 1730-35
No reserve
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen milk jug, Circa 1730-35
painted, probably by A. F. von Löwenfinck, on the front with two figures on horseback and on the reverse with a running boy carrying a basket of flowers on his back and pulling a flowering branch tied with a cord, crossed swords mark within concentric circles in underglaze-blue, with incised Dreher's mark of an x for Johann Daniel Rehschuh.
Height: 5¾ in.
14.6 cm
Louis Jay, Frankfurt am Main (possibly);
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 104 in black) by repute acquired in 1926-27;
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 238 a/c (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. 1603/5.6.7);
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
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, no. 104, pl. 42
Gustav E. Pazaurek, Meissener Porzellanmalerei des 18, Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart, 1929, p. 28, fig. 12
Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 22, cat. no. 148
W.B. Honey, Dresden china, an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain, London, 1954, pp. 79, 171, 184, n. 88
Ralph H. Wark, 'Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Porzellan- und Fayencemaler des 18. Jahrhunderts 1714-1754', Mitteilungsblatt Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, No. 34, 1956, p. 13, fig. 3; and 1957, p. 23
Arthur Zell, in: 'Die ersten Reaktionen auf die Arbeit von R. Wark', Mitteilungsblatt Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, No. 35, 1956, p. 17
Arno Schönberg, in: 'Die ersten Reaktionen auf die Arbeit von R. Wark', Mitteilungsblatt Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, No. 35, 1956, p. 18
Residenzmuseum München, Europäisches Rokoko : Kunst und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts , exh. cat., Munich, 1958, cat.nr. 742
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 285-87, cat. no. 206
Ulrich Pietsch, Phantastische Welten. Malerei Auf Meissener Porzellan Und Deutschen Fayencen Von Adam Friedrich Von Löwenfinck (1714-1754), exh. cat., Stuttgart, 2014, no. 18
It has been suggested by Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1927, pp. 34-35, that the gilded folds in the leg of one of the riders on the milk-jug could be interpreted as pseudo-Chinese characters which include 'LF' for Löwenfinck.