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An extremely rare Meissen blue-tinted beaker vase, Circa 1727-30

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

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An extremely rare Meissen blue-tinted beaker vase, Circa 1727-30


applied with two white meandering fruiting grape vines, painted, in the manner of J. E. Stadler, on the front or reverse with a scene within a fenced garden, one with two figures fending off a dragon beneath a second dragon in flight above, and the other with a seated figure and a boy flying a small tethered dragon beneath a phoenix in flight, the moulded foot with a band of narrow gilt scrollwork, crossed swords mark in blue enamel.

Height: 9¼ in.

23.5 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 256 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 339 (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. 1593/2);

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

Dresden, Japanese Palace, 2010, no. 232

Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 312

Irwin Untermyer & Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1956, p.130

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig. 11

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 74-75, cat. no. 37

Ulrich Pietsch & Claudia Banz, Triumph of the blue swords: Meissen porcelain for aristocracy and bourgeoisie 1720-1815, exh. cat., Dresden, 2010, no. 232