A Meissen Kakiemon fluted cup and saucer, Circa 1730

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 85 in black);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 220 (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. 2367/20);

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. 85, pl. 31

Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 21, cat. no. 133

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 250, cat. no. 180

Cups and saucers of this form are more typically found painted with flowers and the 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists such examples: 'Fünf Dutzend und 4. Stück ovale geschweiffte Thée Tassen, mit einem Henkel, mit rothen Vögeln und Blümgen gemahlt, 2. Zoll tief, 3 1/4 Zoll in Diam: und Fünf Dutzend und 3. Stück detto Unterschaalen, 1. Zoll tief, 5 3/4. Zoll lang, 5 3/4. Zoll in Diam: No. 365', [five dozen and four oval wavy tea cups, with one handle, painted with red birds and flowers...: and five dozen and three similar saucers...], Boltz 1996, p. 58. Two cups and saucers bearing inventory number 365 remain in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, inv. nos. PE 5074 and PE 5073 a, b.