Sammlung Oppenheimer | Important Meissen Porcelain

An extremely rare Meissen two-handled jar and cover, Circa 1725-28

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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An extremely rare Meissen two-handled jar and cover, Circa 1725-28

of compressed form, affixed with scroll handles and raised on three lion's paw feet, painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, with an elaborate scene depicting figures at various pursuits supported on a gilt and Böttger lustre-ground bracket device issuing iron-red and puce scrollwork above a band of stiff leaves applied around the foot, the cover similarly decorated with small figural vignettes and stiff leaves beneath the knop painted with a harlequin pattern, unmarked.

Height: 6 in.

15.2 cm

Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 281 in red);

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 350 (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. 2252/9);

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. 398

Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 110-11, cat. no. 58

At the time of publication of den Blaauwen's Rijksmuseum catalogue, no other examples of this form were known to him. In fact the Oppenheimer Collection included a second example of this form (no. 282), which was later acquired by Mannheimer (inv. no. Por. 351), and subsequently sold in the sale of his collection at Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, October 14-21, 1952, lot 419. That piece had slight differences to the present, featuring a flat base without paw-feet and a stiff-leaf band, but was sprigged with grapevine issuing from the handle terminals. A third example, similar in shape to the abovementioned, was sold at Bonhams London, March 20, 2013, lot 6, which had formerly been in the collection of the Reverend the Rt. Hon. Lord Byron (Frederick Byron, 10th Baron Byron 1861-1949), Thrumpton Hall, Nottinghamshire.