Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

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A very rare pair of Meissen Augustus Rex underglaze-blue-ground beaker vases, Circa 1725-30

Auction Closed

September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A very rare pair of Meissen Augustus Rex underglaze-blue-ground beaker vases, Circa 1725-30


each Gu-shaped vase painted on either side, in the manner of J. E. Stadler, with figures and birds within gilt foliate scroll-edged shaped panels reserved above and below the slightly swelling mid-sections similarly decorated with figural vignettes, AR mark in underglaze-blue, Hausmarschallamt number III, numeral 349 or 350 in black enamel.

Height: 13⅞ in.

35.4 cm

The Royal Collections of Saxony, Residenzschloss, Dresden, Turmzimmer;

Thence by descent in the Royal Collections of Saxony;

Property of the Free State of Saxony, 1918;

Awarded in 1924 to the State of Saxony, as part of the agreement with the former Royal family of Saxony (Haus Wettin, Albertinische Linie e.v.)

Possibly exchanged with the Wettin family and by whom sold shortly thereafter;

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 236 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 337 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. 1627/2);

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

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 71, cat. no. 35