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A Meissen-style lobed cinquefoil box and cover, 19th/early 20th century

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 USD

Lot Details

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A Meissen-style lobed cinquefoil box and cover, 19th/early 20th century


painted in Chinoiserie style with figures and dogs before rockwork issuing trees, shrubs and flowers, the cover similarly decorated, crossed swords mark in blue enamel, engraved pseudo-Japanese Palace Inventory number N=317-W.

Width: 5 in.

12.7 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 263 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 260 (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. 1616/24);

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, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 24, cat. no. 164

Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Europäisches Porzellan und ostasiatisches Exportporzellan, Geschirr und Ziergerät, Cologne, 1980, under no. 27

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 292-93, cat. no. 212

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