Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
A very rare Meissen trompe l'oeil coffee pot and cover, Circa 1729
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A very rare Meissen trompe l'oeil coffee pot and cover, Circa 1729
painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on the front and reverse of the coffee pot with an elaborate Böttger lustre, shaded iron-red and gilt foliate scrollwork-edged cartouche, each depicting two figures either seated or standing by a steaming kettle or seated at a low table taking tea, a trompe l'oeil fragment of scroll and wax seal beneath the spout and scattered insects on either side of the handle, the cover similarly decorated with smaller figural cartouches, unmarked.
Height: 8¼ in.
21 cm.
Hoth Collection, Berlin, sale, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, February 23-24, 1926, lot 114, pl. 5;
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 144 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 297 (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. 1782/5);
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. 144, pl. 62
Gustav E. Pazaurek, Meissner Porzellanmalerei des 18. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart, 1929, pp. 47-48
Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 403
W.B. Honey, Dresden china, an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain, London, 1954, p. 78
Residenzmuseum München, Europäisches Rokoko : Kunst und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts, exh. cat., Munich, 1958, no.734
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig. 22
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 106, cat. no. 53
Ulrich Pietsch & Claudia Banz, Triumph of the blue swords: Meissen porcelain for aristocracy and bourgeoisie 1720-1815, exh. cat., Dresden, 2010, cat. no. 62
'Votre très hum[ble] …/
Johann Martin/
Bottfridm…/
nebst 1. Balle [??} mit dem Sigl: Zc/
zur fracht ge …/
6 Le …'
The language at the court of Saxony was French, the practice of which is reflected in the legible opening address. The rest of the letter is written in German 'Gothic' script and may perhaps derive from an invoice and/or shipping document. The painted 'wax seal' is impressed with an as yet unidentified coat-of-arms.