Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

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A Meissen Hausmaler coffee pot and cover, Circa 1720-25

Auction Closed

September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen Hausmaler coffee pot and cover, Circa 1720-25


decorated in Goldchinesen style, probably in the Seuter workshop, Aursburg, on both sides with shaped panels of figures at various pursuits in gardens, between fluted borders above the foot and below the rim, repeated on the cover, the finial and handle mounted with a silver chain.

Height: 8⅛ in.

20.6 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 50 in black);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 191 a (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. 2294/6);

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

Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, no. 50, pl. 17

A coffee pot with silver mounts by Elias Adam, with very similar goldchinesen arched panels is illustrated in Ducret, 1971, p. 198, abb. 223, sold at Sotheby's London, Property of the Trustees of the later Field-Marshal, the Rt. Hon. Lord Methuen, May 22, 1951, lot 138. A detail image of another Hausmaler piece bearing the monogram mark seen on this lot, combined with other lustre marks, is illustrated in Ducret, ibid., p. 254, abb. 341d.