Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain
An extremely rare Meissen jug and hinged cover, Circa 1722-23
Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An extremely rare Meissen jug and hinged cover, Circa 1722-23
the decoration attributed to Johann Christoph Horn, painted in underglaze-blue and enamels with a seated woman nursing an infant, a child clinging to her shoulder and a figure presenting a second infant, flanked by figures before flowering branches issuing from pierced rockwork, either seated on a carpet, taking tea and engaged in conversation or standing holding the cover of a smoking brazier, the cover with a small bird perched upon further pierced rockwork issuing flowers, rosette and 'kite' mark in underglaze-blue.
Height: 8¼ in.
21 cm
Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 245 in red);
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 255 (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. 1600/14);
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, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig. 12
Ingelore Menzhausen, 'Höroldt und sein "Seminarium": Meissen 1720 bis 1730', Keramos, No. 120, 1988, p. 8
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 62-63, cat. no. 32
Ulrich Pietsch & Claudia Banz, Triumph of the blue swords: Meissen porcelain for aristocracy and bourgeoisie 1720-1815, exh. cat., Dresden, 2010, no. 70
Elfriede Langeloh, 100 Jahre Porzellane und Fayencen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Weinheim/Neustadt, 2019, p. 567, abb. 426