Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

A Meissen teabowl and saucer, Circa 1728

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen teabowl and saucer, Circa 1728

painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, with Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits in gardens, within Böttger lustre, iron-red, purple and gilt scrollwork-edged quatrefoil cartouches, the interior of teabowl with a small spray of indianische Blumen, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, the saucer with numeral 85 in gliding.

Diameter of saucer: 4¾ in.

12.1 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 165 in black);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 307 (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. 1592/4);

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. 165, unillustrated

By 1927 the Oppenheimers owned four teabowls and saucers from this service, two of which were illustrated in Schnorr von Carolsfeld, pl. 72. They also owned a hexagonal tea canister and cover with corresponding gilt numeral which may have belonged to the same service, Schnorr von Carolsfeld, no. 162, pl. 67. A teabowl and saucer from the service was sold at Christie's London, February 20, 2006, lot 10.