Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

A Meissen teabowl and saucer, Circa 1725-30

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

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2,000 - 3,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen teabowl and saucer, Circa 1725-30

decorated in Goldchinesen style, perhaps at the Meissen factory, on the front of the teabowl with a building and rockwork flanked by figures, one holding a tethered bird and the other holding a parasol, the reverse with a figure offering fruit to a bird perched atop fencing, the saucer similarly decorated with a large building flanked by figures, unmarked.

Diameter of saucer: 4¾ in.

12.2 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 71 in black);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 197 (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. 1603/4);

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. 71, pl. 16

Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 20, cat. no. 122

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 212, cat. no. 131

A teapot in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, with similar decoration and bearing KPM and crossed swords marks, is cited by den Blaauwen, 2000, p. 212, where the author raises the question as to whether this provides a basis for attributing similar decoration on Meissen pieces to the factory.

Two teabowls and saucers with the same scenes and likely from the same service as the present lot, were sold at Lempertz, Cologne, October 16-18, 1928, lots 641-42. The first, sold again at Christie's London, February 24, 1997, lot 388 (part), the latter (unillustrated) is probably the example that sold at Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, May 14, 1970, lot 254. The Oppenheimer Collection originally included a hexagonal tea canister, likely from the service or by the same hand, unusually decorated with alternating gilt and silver panels. It subsequently entered the Mannheimer Collection and was later sold at Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, October 14-21, 1952, lot 430-438.