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A Meissen armorial tankard, with gilt-metal mounts, the porcelain Circa 1740, the decoration 19th century, the mounts later

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen armorial tankard, with gilt-metal mounts, The porcelain circa 1740, the decoration 19th century, the mounts later


elaborately decorated in enamels and gilding with the arms of the Von Zobel family of Saxony, crossed swords mark in blue, impressed numeral 3.

Height: 5⅝ in.

14.3 cm

Nathan Samuel Kaplan Collection, Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and Paris;

Paris, sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, November 30 - December 4, 1926, lot 524;

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 224 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 377 (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. 1590/8);

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, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 355

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 180-81, cat. no.106

A silver-mounted Meissen tankard bearing the arms of the Von Zobel family, the decoration of which apparently has been copied on the present tankard, was in the C. H. Fischer Collection, Dresden, sold, Gallery Helbing, Munich, May 13-15, 1918, lot 105; and the Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild Collection, Berlin, sold, Hermann Ball & Paul Graupe, Berlin, March 23-25, 1931, lot 599.

Sotheby’s Scientific Research department used non-invasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was detected.