A Meissen two-handled circular small tureen, cover and stand, Circa 1730-35
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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A Meissen two-handled circular small tureen, cover and stand, Circa 1730-35
decorated in enamels, gilding and Böttger lustre, on the front and reverse of the tureen with Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits supported on foliate scrollwork brackets incorporating two small purpurmalerei quatrefoil panels of harbour scenes and affixed at each end with a scroll handle issuing indianische Blumen, the flattened domed cover painted above the rim with two elaborate scrollwork-edged panels of harbour scenes alternating with figural scenes on scrollwork brackets, the top with two scrollwork-edged purpurmalerei panels of harbour scenes alternating with two small figural scenes supported on scrollwork pedestals beneath the gilt ball finial, painted in the centre of the stand with a large spray of indianische Blumen and around the rim with four further scrollwork-edged panels of harbour scenes, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, Dreher's marks of a cross in a circle to stand.
Diameter of stand: 9½ in.
24.1 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 210 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 368 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. unknown);
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. 210, pl. 94
Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 27, cat. no. 209
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 146-47, cat. no. 83 (part)
A bowl and cover which probably formed part of the same service as the present lot and the following, was in the collection of Henry H. Arnhold, New York, sold, Replica Shoes 's New York, October 21, 2020, lot 156, illustrated in Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, pp. 542-43, no. 259. The collection of Gustav and Charlotte von Klemperer included a pair of bowls, covers and stands of this form, painted with Chinoiserie figures in the manner of both Höroldt and Stadler, illustrated in their catalogue by Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1928, nos. 77-78, taf. 5.
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