Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A Meissen two-handled beaker and a stand, Circa 1725-28
No reserve
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen two-handled beaker and a stand, Circa 1725-28
the beaker set with richly gilt double-scroll handles, each painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, with figures at various pursuits, the front of the beaker with an attendant pouring tea for a dignitary seated at a table, a second attendant adjusting purple drapery, the reverse with figures standing on either side of a table in a garden, centre of the stand with a woman standing at her dressing table with her attendant and combing her long hair, all within Böttger lustre, iron-red, puce and gilt scrollwork-edged shaped cartouches, the rims with gilt lacework borders and the stand enamelled in iron-red with three concentric circles, crossed swords marks in blue enamel, the beaker with gilt numeral 8.
Diameter of stand: 5⅜ in.
13.7 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 177 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 313 (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. 1571/1);
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. 177, pl. 77
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 121, cat. no. 70