A Meissen beaker, Circa 1725
Estimate:
4,000 to - 6,000 USD
A Meissen beaker, Circa 1725
A Meissen beaker, Circa 1725
Estimate:
4,000 to - 6,000 USD
Lot sold:
11,970
USD
A Meissen beaker, Circa 1725
painted on one side with Chinoiserie figures in conversation beneath a palm tree above a harbour and on the other with a dignitary being transported in a sedan chair towards a distant town, each within a Böttger lustre, iron-red, purple and gilt scrollwork-edged shaped quatrefoil cartouche, above a border of stiff acanthus leaves applied above the foot and heightened in gilding, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, letter A in gilding.
Height: 4 in.
10.3 cm
The beaker is lacking its cover. The rim with a fine hairline crack measuring approximately 6cm long. Some typical scattered wear to gilding on rim edge.
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OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Friedrich von Parpart, Schloss Hünegg, Bern, his sale, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, March 18-22, 1912, lot 693 (lacking cover) (sold for 1160 Mark);
Fritz Buckardt, Berlin, his sale, Cassirer & Helbing, Berlin, December 8-9, 1925, lot 96;
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 151 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 303 (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. 1561/6);
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