Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A Meissen two-handled circular box and cover, the porcelain Circa 1720-25, the decoration slightly later
No reserve
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen two-handled circular box and cover, the porcelain Circa 1720-25, the decoration slightly later
affixed with two gilt shell-form handles, decorated, probably in the Seuter workshop, Augsburg, in Goldchinesen style, around the exterior of the box and the cover with vignettes of figures at various pursuits, with gilt scrollwork-edged rims, script letter B mark in lustre.
Height: 2⅞ in.
7.3 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (partially legible number 302(?) in red);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris (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;
Repatriated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;
Loaned by the Dutch state to the Kunstmuseum Den Haag by 1953;
Restituted by the above to the heirs of Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer in 2021