Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

A Meissen circular dish or stand, Circa 1735

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

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25,000 - 40,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen circular dish or stand, Circa 1735

painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, with Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits on a tiered console elaborately decorated in gilding and Böttger lustre and reserved with three quatrefoil panels painted in purpurmalerei with oriental harbour scenes, the rim with four gilt-edged elongated quatrefoil panels painted with harbour scenes, alternating with shaped Böttger lustre and gilt diaperwork panels and purpurmalerei baskets of flowers within gilt foliate scrollwork, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue.

Diameter: 8¾ in.

22.4 cm

Miss H. Argyropoulo, her sale, Christie's London, May 12, 1927, lot 37, 38 or 39, all of which acquired at the sale by Vollman for a total of £1,165 10 s;

Possibly with Arthur Wittekind;

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 238 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 378 a/b (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. 1561/2);

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

Dresden, Japanese Palace, 2010, cat. no. 122

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig. 29

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 156-57, cat. no. 89

Ulrich Pietsch and Claudia Banz, Triumph of the blue swords: Meissen

porcelain for aristocracy and bourgeoisie 1720-1815, exh. cat., Dresden, 2010, no. 122

The 1927 Argyropoulo sale at Christie's included six dishes of this type sold as pairs. The three lots, which sold for a total of 1,110 guineas, were not illustrated so it is difficult to be certain which recorded examples may have come from that sale. Surviving dishes include one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gifted by Thornton Wilson in 1954 (Cassidy-Geiger, 1996, Vol. 31, p. 103, fig. 13); one in the Dr. Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim (Eikelmann, 2004, p. 122, cat. no. 32); one in the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe and another in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
A dish was in the von Dallwitz Collection, Berlin by 1904 (Brüning, 1904, cat. no. 166, pl. IX). A further dish, formerly in the collections of Dr. Albert Kocher, Bern, and Dr. Paul Schnyder von Wartensee, Luzern, was sold from a Swiss private collection by Christie's London, July 8, 2002, lot 29.

den Blaauwen 2000, p. 156, notes a subtle difference in the two Oppenheimer dishes, compared to the abovementioned, in that the lowest section of the lustre bracket is filled with gilt-dots rather than gilt-diaper. This feature is also seen in a larger dish (28.9 cm diameter) from the Hoffmeister Collection (Hoffmeister, Band I, 1999, pp. 142-43, cat. no. 66), sold, Bonhams London, November 29, 2009, lot 55.