A Meissen powdered lilac-ground goldchinesen teapot and cover, Circa 1730-35
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen powdered lilac-ground goldchinesen teapot and cover, Circa 1730-35
decorated on either side of the teapot with a Chinoiserie figural vignette in tooled gilding against a powdered lilac ground, similarly decorated with smaller vignettes on the cover, the handle and spout, painted with Kakiemon flower sprigs, and the gilt finial of the cover all mounted with a silver-gilt chain, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue.
Height: 3¾ in.
9.6 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 316 in red);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 208 (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. 1616/34);
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. 54, cat. no. 368
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 208, cat. no. 125
den Blaauwen concludes that this is factory decoration noting the similarity of one vignette to a drawing in the Schulz-Codex. The Kakiemon style sprigs would also support this. An oviform tea canister and cover decorated in this manner and almost certainly from the same service was sold at Christie's Geneva, December 3, 1982, lot 125.
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