Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

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A Meissen white porcelain figure of a seated pagod, Circa 1715

Auction Closed

September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen white porcelain figure of a seated pagod, Circa 1715


the loosely robed and smiling figure modelled seated with his right hand resting on his raised right knee, engraved Japanese Palace inventory number N=220 W.

Height: 3¾ in.

9.5 cm

The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden;

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 2 in black);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 142 (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. 2367/31);

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. 2, pl. not illustrated

Joseph De Borchgrave d'Altena, L'influence de l'art chinois sur les arts européens au XVIII siècle, exh. cat., Liège, 1954, no. 45

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 420, cat. no. 306

Liège, La Salle de l'Emulation, 1954, no. 45