A Meissen beaker and stand, Circa 1725-28
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen beaker and stand, Circa 1725-28
painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on one side of the beaker with a seated figure holding a steaming beverage and on the other side with a figure standing beside a small table, the centre of the stand with a lady seated and her attendant standing on either side of a brazier and kettle, all within Böttger lustre, iron-red, puce and gilt foliate scrollwork-edged shaped quatrefoil cartouches, the rims with gilt lacework borders, the underside of the saucer with three enamelled concentric circles in iron-red, crossed swords marks in blue enamel, gilt numeral 12., the beaker with Dreher's mark of two dots for Johann Martin Kittel Junior.
Diameter of stand: 4⅞ in.
12.4 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 179 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 315 (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. 1603/3);
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. 179, pl. 78
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 123, cat. no. 72
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