A Meissen tea canister and cover, Circa 1730-35

Louis Jay, Frankfurt am Main (possibly);

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 106 in black) by repute acquired in 1926-27;

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 238 a/c (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. 1603/5.6.7);

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, nos. 106, pl. 45

Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 22, cat. no. 148

W.B. Honey, Dresden china, an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain, London, 1954, pp. 79, 171, 184, n. 88

Ralph H. Wark, 'Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Porzellan- und Fayencemaler des 18. Jahrhunderts 1714-1754', Mitteilungsblatt Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, No. 34,1956, p. 13, fig. 3 (jug), and 5 (bowl); and 1957, p. 23

Arthur Zell, in: 'Die ersten Reaktionen auf die Arbeit von R. Wark', Mitteilungsblatt Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, No. 35, 1956, p. 17

Arno Schönberg, in: 'Die ersten Reaktionen auf die Arbeit von R. Wark', Mitteilungsblatt Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, No. 35, 1956, p. 18

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 285-87, cat. no. 206

Ulrich Pietsch, Phantastische Welten. Malerei Auf Meissener Porzellan Und Deutschen Fayencen Von Adam Friedrich Von Löwenfinck (1714-1754), exh. cat., Stuttgart, 2014, no. 22

Pieces belonging to services of this type include a coffee pot, teapot and stand, oval sugar box, rectangular tea canister, waste bowl, and three teabowls and saucers, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, acc. nos. C.882/90-1935, illustrated in Pietsch, 2014, pp. 118-37. Pietsch suggests there are at least three services of this type on the basis of the diaper borders being different. From this he suggests the milk jug and tea canister offered in this sale are associated with the group in the V&A, and the bowl with another service now seperated across other collections. A further waste bowl and a milk jug painted in this manner are in the Prague Museum of Decorative Arts (UPM). A lobed dish or stand sold at Bonhams London, December 6, 2018, lot 257, is evidence of a fourth service.