Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

A Meissen yellow-ground pouring cup and stand, Circa 1730

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen yellow-ground pouring cup and stand, Circa 1730

similarly decorated to the preceding lot, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, with Chinoiserie figural panels, the panel in the centre of the stand edged with a Böttger lustre, iron-red, puce and gilt foliate scrollwork and drapery border surmounted by a mask, the interior of the cup painted in iron-red and purple with a floral and foliate roundel, crossed swords marks, within two concentric circles on the cup, in underglaze-blue, Dreher's mark of a cross to both pieces.

Diameter of stand: 5⅜ in.

13.6 in.

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 291 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 354 (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. 1619/6);

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, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 26, cat. no. 202

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 125, cat. no. 74

A pouring cup, probably from the same service as the present example, was in the Collection of Siegfried and Lola Kramarsky, New York, sold, Christie's New York, October 30, 1993, lot 36. As cited by den Blaauwen, 2000, p. 125, a further pouring cup and stand, probably from the same service was in the Hermann Emden Collection, Hamburg, sold, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, November 3-7, 1908, lot 454. A third cup and stand, probably from the service, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 42.205.87/88.