Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

A Meissen yellow-ground pouring cup and two-handled stand, Circa 1730

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen yellow-ground pouring cup and two-handled stand, Circa 1730

painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on each side of the cup with Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits in a garden within a gilt-edged quatrefoil reserve, and in the center of the stand with a figure holding a scroll standing before a smoking brazier on a pedestal within an elaborate Böttger lustre, iron-red, puce and gilt foliate scrollwork-edged cartouche incorporating a small figural panel in iron-red, the gilt-edged handles with similar scrollwork, the interior of the cup painted with an iron-red, yellow and blue diaperwork and flowerhead roundel, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, Dreher's mark of two dots for Johann Martin Kittel Junior to both pieces.

Width of stand: 7⅜ in.

18.8 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 216 in black);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 373 (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. 1616/10);

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. 216, pl. 100

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 124, cat. no. 73

The Oppenheimer Collection included a second stand from this service (Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1927, no. 217, unillustrated), which was later acquired by Mannheimer (inv. no. Por. 374). This was possibly the example sold in the sale of his collection at Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, October 14-21,1952, lot 443.

A pouring cup and stand from this service was sold at Christie's Geneva, November 12, 1984, lot 132. A further stand from this service was sold at Replica Shoes 's London, March 21, 2000, lot 28, formerly sold in the same rooms, June 17, 1975, lot 162.