Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A Meissen oval tureen, cover and stand, Circa 1730-35
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen oval tureen, cover and stand, Circa 1730-35
richly painted on either side of the tureen and cover, and in the centre of the stand, with Chinoiserie figures and children at assorted various pursuits in garden settings, above or within a wide border of gilt trelliswork reserved with small figural panels on the cover and stand, the knopped finial of the cover moulded with gilt-heightened acanthus leaves above a domed base painted in purpurmalerei with further figural scenes, affixed on either side of the tureen with a female mask wearing a feathered headdress forming the handle, and the stand with gilt-heightehed upright scroll-and-shell handles, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, the tureen with Dreher's mark of a cross with four dots for Andreas Schiefer.
Length of stand: 14¼ in
26.2 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 198 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 326 (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. 1610/5);
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, nos. 198, pl. 91
Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 334
Ralph H. Wark, 'Meissner Chinoiserien der Heroldzeit', Mitteilungsblatt Freunde der Schweizer Keramik, No. 30/31, 1955, pp. 29-30
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 149-51, cat. no. 85