Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A Meissen seladon-ground teabowl and a saucer, the tea bowl Circa 1735, the saucer later
No reserve
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
300 - 500 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen seladon-ground teabowl and a saucer, the tea bowl Circa 1735, the saucer later
the teabowl reserved with four gilt-edged quatrefoil panels painted with Chinoiserie figural scenes, the centre of the saucer similarly decorated within a scrollwork-edged cartouche, the teabowl with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, the saucer with crossed swords mark in blue enamel
Width of saucer: 4¼ in.
10.8 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 188 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 319 (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. 1616/31);
Repatriated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;
Loaned by the Dutch state to the Kunstmuseum Den Haag by 1953;
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. 188, unillustrated