Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A pair of Meissen Augustus Rex yellow-ground baluster vases and covers, Circa 1735
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A pair of Meissen Augustus Rex yellow-ground baluster vases and covers, Circa 1735
each vase reserved on the front and reverse with a purple-edged lobed panel painted with two Chinoiserie figures and flowering plants beneath a boldly painted garland of indianische Blumen on the shoulder, the sides reserved with three leaf-shaped panels suspending blue bellflowers variously painted with a cranes, birds, insects and indianische Blumen, the neck painted with scattered indianische Blumen sprigs, the domed covers similarly decorated beneath the finials, AR marks in underglaze-blue.
Height: 18½ in. and 18¼ in.
47 cm and 46.2 cm
Count Vietinghoff-Scheel Collection, Berlin (by repute, information from the art dealer Arthur Wittekind, according to den Blaauwen's catalogue);
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 259 in red);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 259 a/b (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. 1621/4);
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
Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 314
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 270-71, cat. no. 197