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A Meissen waste bowl, Circa 1725-28

Auction Closed

September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen waste bowl, Circa 1725-28


painted, possibly by C. F. Herold, with a continuous quayside scene of European and Chinese figures, masted sailing ships and smaller boats anchored at shore or at sea below a cloud strewn sky, the centre of the interior with a trellis- and flowerhead-pattern roundel beneath a gilt flowerhead and scrollwork border on the rim, crossed swords mark in blue enamel.

Diameter: 7 in.

17.8 cm

Marie Rosenfeld (1841-1914) (née Goldschmidt, sister of Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild), her estate sale, Fred. Muller, Amsterdam, May 9-12, 1916, lot 502, illustrated;

sale, Fred. Muller, Amsterdam, April 5-7, 1927, lot 566, illustrated;

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 244 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 381 (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. 1478/7);

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

Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 27, cat. no. 213

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig. 13

Malcolm D. Gutter, 'Meissen Chinoiserie & harbour scenes', The Antique Collector, 1988, fig. 2

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 77, cat. no. 38

Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Meissener Porzellanmalerei und Ihre Grafischen Vorlagen, Band II, Dresden, 2018, p. 53, pl. 36a