Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
An extremely rare Böttger enamelled and gilt black-glazed red stoneware tankard, with silver-gilt mount, Circa 1711-15, the mounts Abraham III Warnberger, Augsburg, 1732-34
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An extremely rare Böttger enamelled and gilt black-glazed red stoneware tankard, with silver-gilt mount, Circa 1711-15, the mounts Abraham III Warnberger, Augsburg, 1732-34
cold-painted and gilded, in the workshop of and probably by Martin Schnell, around the black-glazed exterior of the cylindrical body with two cranes before buildings in a rocky landscape, figures of a lady and four children, one carried on the back of another, flowering prunus and chrysanthemum issuing from rockwork and a group of scrolls standing in a pot near a rectangular box, the flattened handle with band of pendant calyces, mounted with a hinged silver-gilt cover with a pierced cartouche-shaped thumbpiece, the finial formed as a bunch of grapes resting in a bed of leaves within a chased border of strapwork suspending further bunches of grapes, mount with maker's mark AW as ligature in an oval for Abraham III Warnberger(1670-1753).
Height: 7⅞ in.
20 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (by 1927) (no. 35 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, Inv. No. Por. 177 (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. 2367/13);
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. 35, pl. 9
Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, no 346
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld & Erich Köllmann, Porzellan der europäischen Fabriken, Brunswick, 1956, p. 47, fig. 18
W. Holzhausen, 'De Dresdense barok in het Rijksmuseum', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, No. 8, 1960, fig. 7
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig. 3
Siegfried Ducret, Deutsches Porzellan und deutsche Fayencen mit Wien. Zürich. Nylon, Baden-Baden, 1962, pl. 2
Peter Wilhelm Meister & Horst Reber, Europäisches Porzellan, Fribourg, 1980, fig. 1
Rolf Sonnemann & Eberhard Wächtler (eds.), Johann Friedrich Böttger. Die Erfindung des europäischen Porzellans, Leipzig/Stuttgart, 1982, fig. 124 (color)
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 23-25, cat. no. 5