A Meissen beaker and stand, Circa 1725-28
No reserve
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen beaker and stand, Circa 1725-28
the beaker affixed with a single richly gilt double scroll handle, each piece painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, with seated figures and their attendants at various pursuits, within Böttger lustre, iron-red, puce and gilt foliate scrollwork-edged shaped quatrefoil cartouches, the rims of both with gilt lacework borders, the cup painted in iron-red on either side of the handle with a trailing spray of indianische Blumen and the underside of the saucer enamelled with three concentric circles, crossed swords marks in blue enamel, the beaker with Dreher's mark of two dots for Johann Martin Kittel Junior, the inner footrim of the saucer with an incised line.
The stand diameter: 5½ in.
14 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 178 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 314 (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. 1624/8);
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. 178, pl. 78
Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 25, cat. no. 185
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 122, cat. no. 71
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