Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

A Meissen teabowl and saucer, Circa 1722-23

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen teabowl and saucer, Circa 1722-23

painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on the front of the teabowl with a figure walking in a garden and carrying a staff within a Böttger lustre iron-red, puce and gilt foliate scrollwork-edged shaped quatrefoil cartouche, the reverse with a large colourful butterfly flanked by a dolphin swallowing a fish and a frog caught by a crane and the interior with an iron-red roundel painted with a stylised building and flowers issuing from rockwork, the saucer with a similar cartouche of a seated figure holding a large green leaf and a small rabbit in a garden, numeral 8 to both pieces in lustre.

Diameter of saucer: 4¾ in.

12.1 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 235 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 336 (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. 1478/11);

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

Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 26, cat. no. 195

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 115, cat. no. 65

Two teabowls and saucers from this service were in the collection formed by Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold and acquired in 1927 from M. Salomon, Dresden, illustrated in Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, pp. 229, cat. no. 75, and p. 739, fig. 11. The decoration on the opposite side of the present teabowl, like the Arnhold examples, derives from variations of Aesop's Fables, in this case 'The Frogs asking for a King' or 'Jupiter and the Frogs', and 'The Tuna and the Dolphin'. For the probable sugar box from this service, acquired at a slightly later time by the Oppenheimers, see lot 52.