A Meissen purple-ground milk jug and cover, Circa 1730-35
No reserve
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen purple-ground milk jug and cover, Circa 1730-35
painted in a distinctive Chinoiserie style on the front and reverse of the lobed baluster jug with either two children playing musical instruments or a child holding a parasol in a garden, and beneath the spout with a spray of Kakiemon flowers, reserved within shaped quatrefoil cartouches on the purple ground, the cover similarly decorated with smaller figural and floral panels around the bud finial, the handle and spout scattered with sprigs of flowers, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, Dreher's mark of a cross and four dots for Andreas Schiefer.
Height: 6¼ in.
15.8 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 255 in red);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 258 (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. 1626/2);
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
Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 24, cat. no. 163
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 290, cat. no. 209
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