A Meissen small teapot and cover, Circa 1725-30
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen small teapot and cover, Circa 1725-30
painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on front and reverse of the teapot with figures at various pursuits in gardens within Böttger lustre, iron-red, puce and gilt scrollwork-edged shaped quatrefoil cartouches and scattered insects and sprigs of indianische Blumen beneath a gilt scrollwork border around the shoulder, the cover with figures carrying either a sword or a spear and a goat grazing on a leaf on either side of the gilt finial, both pieces with letter H. mark in gilding.
Height: 3⅝ in.
9.2 cm
Rudolf Bandli, Hamburg, his estate sale, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, April 20-21, 1926, lot 104, pl. 9;
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 131 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 284 (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. 1475/2);
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. 131, pl. 53
Gustav E. Pazaurek, Meissner Porzellanmalerei des 18. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart, 1929, p. 51, n. 1
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig. 26
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 108, cat. no. 55
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