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A Meissen yellow-ground pouring cup, Circa 1730

Auction Closed

September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen yellow-ground pouring cup, Circa 1730


painted, in the manner of A. F. von Löwenfinck, on the front with a black-robed figure standing in a fenced garden holding a fan and on the reverse with a seated figure holding a teabowl and saucer, each reserved within a shaped quatrefoil cartouche, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue.

Height 2¼ in.

5.6 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 101 in black);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 235 (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. 1475/5);

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. 101, pl. 100

Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 22, cat. no. 147

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 294, cat. no. 214

Both Chinoiserie figures are taken from a print by Johann Christoph Weigel, reproduced in den Blaauwen, 2000, p 294. A pouring up with similar decoration and possibly from the same service as the present lot is in the Museum of Replica Handbags s, Boston, acc. no. 1980.616, gifted by Rita and Frits Markus in 1980, formerly sold at Replica Shoes 's London, November 28, 1961, lot 132. A further example was sold in the same rooms, June 14, 1983, lot 84.