A Meissen purple-ground cream pot, cover and stand, Circa 1730-35
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen purple-ground cream pot, cover and stand, Circa 1730-35
each piece painted, in the manner of J. E. Stadler, with figures standing or seated in gardens holding fans or parasols within quatrefoil cartouches reserved on the purple ground, the cream pot raised on three lion's paw feet and affixed with a scroll handle painted with indianische Blumen, the cover with a pinecone finial, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, numeral 4 in red.
Diameter of stand: 7⅛ in.
18.1 cm
Sale, C.F. Roos, Amsterdam, November 18-21, 1913, lot 629, illustrated;
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 119 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 246b (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. 1614/2);
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. 119, pl. 47
Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 23, cat. no. 153
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 288-89, cat. no. 208
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