Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen yellow-ground bowl and cover, Circa 1725-30
reserved on either side of the bowl with a gilt-edged shaped quatrefoil cartouche painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, with a Chinoiserie figure in a garden, one seated and smoking a pipe, the other standing and tending to the garden, the cover similarly decorated with figural cartouches, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, two gilt dots to both pieces.
Diameter: 5⅞ in.
14.9 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 212 in red);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, Inv. No. Por. 328 (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. 1475/7);
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
Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 26, cat. no. 193
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 110, cat. no. 57