Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

A Meissen Kakiemon fluted beaker, Circa 1730

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

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2,000 - 3,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen Kakiemon fluted beaker, Circa 1730

decorated in a characteristic palette of enamels and gilding on the front with a boy standing, carrying a basket of flowers on his back, and a second boy seated, holding a fan, the reverse with two small birds in flight, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, the inner edge of the footrim incised with Dreher's mark //.

Height: 2½ in.

6.4 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 322 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 224 (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. 2367/46);

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

Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 22, cat. no. 137

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 251, cat. no. 182

Meissen beakers and saucers of this type, bearing enamelled crossed swords or underglaze blue caduceus marks, were first intended for the Paris merchant Rodolph Lemaire, who intended to sell them as Japanese originals. The majority were confiscated by Augustus the Strong and integrated into his collection at the Japanese Palace. For a note on Lemaire see lot 26. Beakers of this form and design were recorded in the 1770 Japanese Palace inventory under numbers including 327, 341, 362 and 373. Circular teabowls and saucers painted with these figures are recorded as number 355. From the inventories we can deduce the large quantities in which wares of this type were made; included under number 341: "Neunzehen Stück gerippte und gemuschelte Chocolaten-Becher, einige Defect mit grün und rothen Pagoden gemahlt, 3. Zoll hoch, 3½. Zoll in Diam: und Achtzehen Stück detto Unterschaalen, 1¼. Zoll hoch, 6½. Zoll in Diam:", [nineteen lobed chocolate beakers, some damaged, painted with red and green pagodas... and eighteen ditto saucers...], Boltz, 1996, p. 57, and number 362: "Acht und Dreyßig Stück gemuschelte Theé Copgen, mit Pagoden gemahlt… nebst Acht und Dreyßig Stück detto Unterschaalen…No. 362", [thirty-eight pieces of lobed teabowls painted with pagodas... with thirty eight pieces ditto saucers], Boltz, ibid., p. 58.