A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted scent bottle and stopper, Circa 1730-35 of flattened flask form, moulded with enamel, gilt and Böttger lustre-heightened female masks on two sides and painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on the front and reverse with Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits in a garden, beneath a Böttger lustre and gilt scrollwork border around the shoulder and a gilt, iron-red and purple foliate scrollwork-patterned neck, interrupted on each of the four sides with a recessed gold band.Height: 3½ in.8.9 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceMargarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 273 in red);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 346 (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. 1523/7);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 2021LiteratureFranz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 24, cat. no. 172Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 168-69, cat. no. 97
A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted scent bottle and stopper, Circa 1730-35 of flattened flask form, moulded with enamel, gilt and Böttger lustre-heightened female masks on two sides and painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on the front and reverse with Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits in a garden, beneath a Böttger lustre and gilt scrollwork border around the shoulder and a gilt, iron-red and purple foliate scrollwork-patterned neck, interrupted on each of the four sides with a recessed gold band.Height: 3½ in.8.9 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceMargarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 273 in red);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 346 (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. 1523/7);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 2021LiteratureFranz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 24, cat. no. 172Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 168-69, cat. no. 97
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