A Meissen cup and trembleuse saucer, Circa 1740
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
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A Meissen cup and trembleuse saucer, Circa 1740
the cup with a gilt-heightened C-scroll handle affixed with a gilt shell thumbpiece, painted, in the manner of C. F. Herold, on either side of the exterior and in the centre of the interior of the cup with vignettes of figures at various pursuits, the centre of the saucer with an iron-red puce and yellow trellis and flowerhead pattern within a raised gilt-edged ring encircled by three small figural vignettes beneath the rim, the underside of the saucer enamelled with three concentric circles in iron-red, the rims of the cup and saucer with gilt lacework borders, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed numeral 23.
Diameter of the saucer: 5 ⅛ in.
13 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 264 in red);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 343 (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. 2252/11);
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
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 163, cat. no. 93
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