A Meissen two-handled beaker and stand, Circa 1725-28
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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A Meissen two-handled beaker and stand, Circa 1725-28
the beaker affixed with richly gilt double-scroll handles, painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on the front and reverse of the beaker with figures at various pursuits in gardens and in the centre of the stand with a vignette of two figures, the robes of one held by a child attendant, all within Böttger lustre, iron-red, purple and gilt scrollwork-edged shaped quatrefoil cartouches, the rims with gilt lacework borders and the underside of the stand enamelled in iron-red with three concentric circles, the beaker with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, the stand with crossed swords mark in blue enamel, both with three gilt dots.
Diameter of stand: 5⅛ in
13 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 176 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 312 (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. 1571/13);
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. 176, pl. 77
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 120, cat. no. 69
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