A rare Meissen Hausmaler two-handled beaker and stand, Circa 1728
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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A rare Meissen Hausmaler two-handled beaker and stand, Circa 1728
decorated in Augsburg, in the Aufenwerth workshop, probably by Anna Elizabeth Wald or her sister Sabina Aufenwerth, on one side with Chinoiserie figures taking tea within a fenced garden and on the other with a seated figure playing a lute beside a companion and flanked by two further figures above a moulded border of alternating green and gold flutes, repeated on the underside of the stand, the centre of the stand with an iron-red and gilt scrollwork-edged cartouche painted with two figures either holding a steaming kettle or tending to a fire beneath a stand, unmarked.
Diameter of stand: 5⅜ in.
13.7 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 236 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 386 (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. 1616/12);
Repatriated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;
Loaned by the Dutch state to the Kunstmuseum Den Haag by 1953;
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. 236, pl. 106
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