Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A Meissen silver-mounted horn-shaped cane handle, Circa 1730-35
No reserve
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen silver-mounted horn-shaped cane handle, Circa 1730-35
painted in shades of black with the head of a goat or chamois, the gilt-edged terminal painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt. with a hound between two figures.
Height: 2 ¾ in.
7 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 226 in red);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 333 (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. 1616/5);
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.
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 169, cat. no. 99
A similar cane handle painted with Chinoiserie figures in this manner was sold at Christie's London, March 30, 1987, lot 79. Another was sold in the same rooms, June 5, 1996, lot 447.