A Meissen purple-ground écuelle, cover and stand, Circa 1730-35
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
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A Meissen purple-ground écuelle, cover and stand, Circa 1730-35
each piece painted, possibly by C. F. Herold, with various figural scenes reserved within gilt-edged quatrefoil panels, including, on one side of the circular écuelle affixed with gilt heightened foliate scroll handles, a man on the back of a goat tilting at golden rings suspended from a stand, and on the other side, a singerie scene of a musician accompanying a dancing couple, the well of the stand painted in iron-red, purple, yellow and green with a diaperwork and flowerhead pattern, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised numeral 10 to écuelle, numeral 5 to stand.
Diameter of stand: 6⅞ in.
17.5 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 193 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 323 (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. 1616/13);
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. 193, pl. 89
Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 25, cat. no. 189
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 148, cat. no. 84
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