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A Meissen teabowl and saucer, Circa 1730

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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A Meissen teabowl and saucer, Circa 1730


painted with vignettes of children at play between flowering plants and birds in flight, the rims edged in brown, underglaze-blue stylised caduceus mark to the teabowl and crossed swords mark to the saucer. 

Diameter of saucer: 4⅝ in.

12 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 102 in black);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 236 (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. 1616/30);

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. 102, pl. 40 

Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 8, cat. no. 8

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 293, cat. no. 213

Teawares exist from a second service painted in this manner but with gilt-rims; a coffee-cup and saucer was in the Dr. Albert Weitnauer Collection, Zürich, sold, Christie's Geneva, November 11, 1985, lot 326.

A slightly later service with shaped rims and ogee-shaped cups was also produced; a cup and saucer from this service is in the Gutter Collection, illustrated in Santangelo, 2018, pp. 128-29, 246, pl. 39.