Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

A Meissen coffee pot and cover, Circa 1725

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen coffee pot and cover, Circa 1725

painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on the front and reverse with a Böttger lustre, iron-red and purple scrollwork-edged panel of Chinoiserie figures seated at low tables within gardens, the spout painted with a multi-coloured tasseled ornament, body beneath the spout and handle painted with branches of indianische Blumen, and the domed cover with continuous garden scene of a seated Chinoiserie figure smoking a pipe beside a candle-lit table, both withgilt numeral 35.

Height: 8 ⅜in.

21.3 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 149 in black);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 301 (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. 1631/12);

Repatriated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;

Loaned by the Dutch state to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam;

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. 149, pl. 65

A hexagonal tea canister and sugar box probably from this service, bearing gilt numeral 35, from the collection of the Dukes of Cleveland, 19 St. James Square, were sold at Christie's London, June 30, 1975, lots 90-91.