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A Meissen two-handled bowl, cover and stand, Circa 1730-35

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

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A Meissen two-handled bowl, cover and stand, Circa 1730-35


decorated, in the manner of A. F. von Löwenfinck, in enamels, gilding and Böttger lustre, on either side of the circular bowl, around the cover beneath the floriform finial and in the centre of the stand with various scenes of children at play, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue.

Diameter of stand: 8¾ in.

22.4 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 325 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 270 (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. 1570/3);

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, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 339

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 271-72, cat. no. 198

The scene on the cover with a boy holding a toy windmill is taken from Petrus Schenk the Younger's series Nieuwe geinventeerde Sineesen, plate 23.