Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A rare Meissen armorial tea and coffee service made for the Morosini family, the sugar box Dated 1731
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A rare Meissen armorial tea and coffee service made for the Morosini family, the sugar box Dated 1731
painted and gilt with the arms of Morosini of Venice within an oval escutcheon beneath a Doge's cap crest enclosed by crossed palm branches and painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, with figures at various pursuits, comprising: a coffee-pot and cover, a teapot and cover, its curved spout terminating in a richly gilt mask, an ovoid tea canister and cover, an oval documentary sugar box and cover painted with figures inspecting an oval tablet inscribed K.P./M.F./Meis/sen/1731, a circular waste bowl and six teabowls and saucers, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, the teapot with KPM mark in underglaze-blue; fitted in a fabric-lined leather presentation case.
Height of coffee pot: 8⅝ in.
22.1 cm
Countess Lauredana Gatterburg-Morosini, sale, Palazzo Morosini, Venice, May 17, 1894, lot 240 (sold for 7,800 Lira) (part);
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna;
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 414 (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. 1615/6);
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, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 328
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, cover illustration
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 176-77, cat. no. 103
Meredith Chilton & Claudia Lehner-Jobst (eds.), Fired by Passion, Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, Vol. I, Stuttgart, 2009, p. 474, fig. 5:61
Ulrich Pietsch and Claudia Banz, Triumph of the blue swords: Meissen
porcelain for aristocracy and bourgeoisie 1720-1815, exh. cat., Dresden, 2010, no. 65