Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 19. A Meissen kapuzinerbraun-ground Hausmaler coffee-pot, with silver mounts, the coffee-pot Circa 1726-30, the decoration slightly later, the silver mounts late 19th century.

A Meissen kapuzinerbraun-ground Hausmaler coffee-pot, with silver mounts, the coffee-pot Circa 1726-30, the decoration slightly later, the silver mounts late 19th century

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 USD

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A Meissen kapuzinerbraun-ground Hausmaler coffee-pot, with silver mounts, the coffee-pot circa 1726-30, the decoration slightly later, the silver mounts late 19th century


decorated in silver, in Augsburg, on the front with a bearded figure carrying a boy on his back walking behind another boy holding a mug aloft and on the reverse with a figure carrying a scroll and a basket of flowers atop a pole seated astride a stag led by a boy holding a horn, mounted with a hinged silver cover, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, Dreher's mark 11 or II to footrim, the hinge struck twice with a Dutch control mark for 1853-1905.

Height: 7⅞ in.

20 cm

Please note that the mounts are silver, not silver-gilt.

Generaldirektør Ole Olsen (1863-1943), Copenhagen, no. 1508;

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 73 in black);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 199 (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. 1630/9);

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

Hermann Schmitz & Ole Olsen, Generaldirektør Ole Olsens kunstsamlinger, Vol. II, Munich, 1924, no. 1508, pl. 54

 Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, no. 73, pl. 24

Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 20, cat. no. 113

W.B. Honey, Dresden china, an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain, London, 1954, p. 185

Ralph H. Wark, 'Neues über Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck', Mitteilungsblatt Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, No. 37, 1957, p. 24

Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, p. 65

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 206-207, cat. no. 123

According to the catalogue entry by den Blaauwen, 2000, p. 207, brown-glazed Meissen coffeepots are first mentioned in the factory reports of September 7, 1726, though brown-glaze is produced at least by 1721/22, as at this time six dishes painted with underglaze-blue river scenes, with brown reverses, are recorded in the Royal Collection at Dresden; see the dish from the collection of Henry H. Arnhold, sold at Sotheby's New York, October 24, lot 392. The scene of a figure with a boy on his back appears on a Meissen factory-decorated tea canister in the Wark Collection, catalogue, 1984, p. 143, cat no. 205. The small boy leading a stag is seen, in gilding, on a Böttger (?) stoneware tankard that was in the Gustav von Gerhardt, Budapest, sold, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, November 9-11, 1911, lot 181. Further pieces, decorated with the same figures, are listed by den Blaauwen, which suggests a print source was used as a source, as yet unidentified.

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