
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen tea canister and cover, Circa 1730
painted on the front and reverse of the ovoid body, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, with figures at various pursuits, within a Böttger lustre, iron-red and purple scrollwork-edged quatrefoil cartouche, the sides with colorful sprays of indianische Blumen, and the top of the flattened cover decorated with a gilt star device, gilt numeral 20. to both.
Height: 3¾ in.
9.5 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (by 1927) (no. 164 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 306 (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. 1624/7);
Repatriated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;
Loaned by the Dutch state to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam;
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. 164, pl. 72
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