
No reserve
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen tankard, with silver-gilt mount, the porcelain circa 1730-35, the decoration and mount later
painted with a continuous landscape, with Chinoiserie figures in conversation and walking towards a pagoda, the hinged scrollwork cover inset with a thaler bearing the portrait of Johann Georg of Saxony, inscribed and dated 1633, and affixed with a palmette thumbpiece.
Height: 6 5/8 in.
16.7 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (by 1927) (no. 98 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 232 (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. 2367/24);
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
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, no. 98, pl. 32
Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 22, cat. no. 144
Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Europäisches Porzellan und ostasiatisches Exportporzellan, Geschirr und Ziergerät, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, 1980, under no. 27
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 272-73, cat. no. 199
Sotheby’s Scientific Research department used non-invasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was detected.
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