Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A Meissen small circular dish or stand, Circa 1730-35
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen small circular dish or stand, Circa 1730-35
painted, after Jan van de Velde II, in the centre with a winter scene of figures skating on a frozen river before a stone bridge in a Dutch landscape within an elaborate Böttger lustre, gilt, iron-red and purple foliate scrollwork-edged quatrefoil cartouche supporting a gilt bracket on either side painted with Chinoiserie figures warming their hands over smoking braziers, the gilt-edged rim with a Böttger lustre and gilt flowerhead and scrollwork border and painted around the underside with three sprays of indianische Blumen, crossed swords mark in blue enamel.
Diameter: 6⅞ in.
17.5 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 214 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 371 (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. 1780/10);
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. 21, pl. 99
Gustav E. Pazaurek, Meissner Porzellanmalerei des 18. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart, 1929, p. 48, fig. 27
Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 358
W.B. Honey, Dresden china, an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain, London, 1954, pp. 95, 188, n. 132
Residenzmuseum München, Europäisches Rokoko : Kunst und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts, exh. cat., Munich, 1958, no. 737
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 318, cat. no. 227
Ulrich Pietsch & Claudia Banz, Triumph of the blue swords: Meissen porcelain for aristocracy and bourgeoisie 1720-1815, exh. cat., Dresden, 2010, no. 105
Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Meissener Porzellanmalerei und Ihre Grafischen Vorlagen, Band II, Dresden, 2018, p. 437, no. 333a
The scene is inspired by the 'December' engraving from the 1616 Calendar series by Jan van de Velde II (1593-1641). The two figures in the foreground are taken from 'January', illustrated in Bodinek, 2018, Band II, p. 436, pls. 332-333, who also illustrates a dish formerly in the Hoffmeister Collection painted with a panel using figures from the December plate, pl. 333b.