A Meissen purple-ground coffee pot and cover, Circa 1730-35
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen purple-ground coffee pot and cover, Circa 1730-35
painted, in the manner of J. E. Stadler, on the either side of the lobed baluster coffee pot and beneath the spout with single Chinoiserie figures standing or seated in gardens reserved within shaped quatrefoil cartouches on the purple ground, the cover similarly decorated with smaller panels of flowers beneath the bud form finial, the handle and spout scattered with sprigs of indianische Blumen, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue.
Height: 7½ in.
19.1 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 118 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 246 a/b (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. 1614/2);
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
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, no. 118, pl. 47
Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 23, cat. no. 153
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 288, cat. no. 207
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