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Auction archive: Lot number 84

A Meissen two-handled beaker and stand, Circa 1725

Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$12,600
Auction archive: Lot number 84

A Meissen two-handled beaker and stand, Circa 1725

Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$12,600
Beschreibung:

A Meissen two-handled beaker and stand, Circa 1725 the beaker affixed with gilt-heightened double scroll handles, its lower body and the underside of the stand each moulded with alternating green and gold flutes, painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on the front and reverse of the beaker with figures at various pursuits and in the centre of the stand with a Chinoiserie figure standing in a garden, an offering to a fire-breathing dragon in flight above held in his outstretched hand, all within Böttger lustre, iron-red, puce and gilt-edged shaped quatrefoil cartouches, unmarked.Diameter of stand: 5⅛ in.13 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, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 134 in black);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 287 (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. 1616/17);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 2021LiteratureLudwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, no. 134, pl. 106Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 378Residenzmuseum München, Europäisches Rokoko : Kunst und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts, exh. cat., Munich, 1958, no.753Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 114, cat. no. 63ExhibitedMunich, Residenz, 1958, no. 733Catalogue noteTwo saucers from this service were sold at Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, May 14, 1970, lot 282 (part-lot, catalogued as a pair of double-handled beakers and saucers, one saucer and matched beaker illustrated). A teapot and coffee pot possibly belonging to this service, or one similar, were sold at Sotheby's London, June 16, 1987, lots 93-94.

Auction archive: Lot number 84
Auction:
Datum:
14 Sep 2021
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

A Meissen two-handled beaker and stand, Circa 1725 the beaker affixed with gilt-heightened double scroll handles, its lower body and the underside of the stand each moulded with alternating green and gold flutes, painted, in the manner of J. G. Höroldt, on the front and reverse of the beaker with figures at various pursuits and in the centre of the stand with a Chinoiserie figure standing in a garden, an offering to a fire-breathing dragon in flight above held in his outstretched hand, all within Böttger lustre, iron-red, puce and gilt-edged shaped quatrefoil cartouches, unmarked.Diameter of stand: 5⅛ in.13 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, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 134 in black);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 287 (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. 1616/17);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 2021LiteratureLudwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, no. 134, pl. 106Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 378Residenzmuseum München, Europäisches Rokoko : Kunst und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts, exh. cat., Munich, 1958, no.753Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 114, cat. no. 63ExhibitedMunich, Residenz, 1958, no. 733Catalogue noteTwo saucers from this service were sold at Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, May 14, 1970, lot 282 (part-lot, catalogued as a pair of double-handled beakers and saucers, one saucer and matched beaker illustrated). A teapot and coffee pot possibly belonging to this service, or one similar, were sold at Sotheby's London, June 16, 1987, lots 93-94.

Auction archive: Lot number 84
Auction:
Datum:
14 Sep 2021
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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