Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A Meissen Hausmaler armorial teabowl and saucer, the porcelain Circa 1720-25, the decoration slightly later
No reserve
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen Hausmaler armorial teabowl and saucer, the porcelain Circa 1720-25, the decoration slightly later
each decorated, in the Seuter workshop, Augsburg, in Goldchinesen style, with the arms of Johann Wilhelm Widmann, and a small panel of Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits above gilt-scroll brackets, the interior of the teabowl with a vignette of a bird perched on a branch, the rims with gilt-scrollwork borders, the saucer with numeral 3 2/3. in lustre.
Diameter of saucer: 4⅞ in.
12.4 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (traces of illegible numeral in red);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris (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;
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