A very rare Meissen inscribed and dated beaker, 1726 of tapering cylindrical form, moulded around the rim with a band of pendant calyces and applied above the foot with stiff acanthus leaves alternating with gilt scroll devices, painted, by J. G. Höroldt, on the front with a Chinoiserie scene of an artist seated at a low table with a teapot and strewn with artist's materials, working on a tablet, supported by another figure and bearing the inscription Beate/Chriftina/Keilen/Den 16.Sep/1726 in lustre, a further figure observing the scene at the left, within a Böttger lustre iron-red, puce and gilt foliate scrollwork-edged quatrefoil cartouche, the reverse with indianische Blumen and birds, unmarked.Height: 4¾ in.12.1 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceBy repute, Baroness Hammerstein Collection, Dresden (information from art dealer Arthur Wittekind, according to den Blaauwen);sale, Dr. Weizinger & Co., Munich, April 28-29, 1921, lot 134, pl. IX (illustrated with cover);Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 130 in black);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 283 (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. 1620/7);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 2021LiteratureGeorg Wilhelm Schulz 'Neues über die Vorbilder der Chinesereien des Meissner Porzellans', Mitteilungen des Städtischen Kunstgewerbemuseums zu Leipzig, No. 11/12, 1922, pp. 129-30Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler, Vol. II, Leipzig, 1925, pp. 296-97Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, no. 130, pl. 52Gustav E. Pazaurek, 'Porzellan-Chinoiserien', Der Kunstwanderer, Vol. 10, 1928, illustrated on p. 233Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 296W.B. Honey, Dresden china, an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain, London, 1954, p. 184, n. 79Rudolf Just, 'Der Meissner Hüttel-Krug', Mitteilungsblatt Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, No. 44, 1958, p. 35Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig.23Siegfried Ducret, 'Augsburger Hausmalerei', Keramos 37, 1967, p. 12, fig. 14Ingelore Menzhausen, 'Kritische Bemerkungen zu einer Gruppe con Meissner Walzenkrügen', Keramos, No. 47, 1970, p. 6Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, Vol. I, Brunswick, 1971, fig. 62Rainer Behrend, Das Meissner Musterbuch für Höroldt-Chinoiserien: Musterblätter aus der Malstube der Meissener Prozellanmanufaktur (Schulz Codex), Leipzig, 1978, p. 32, pl. XIII, fig. 131Ulrich Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775 und die Meissener Porzellanmalerei, exh. cat., Dresden, 1996, no. 140, illustratedDiethard Lübke, 'So sah Höroldt aus!', Keramos, No. 165, 1999, fig. 5Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 80-81, cat. no. 41Ulrich Pietsch & Claudia Banz, Triumph of the blue swords: Meissen porcelain for aristocracy and bourgeoisie 1720-1815, exh. cat., Dresden, 2010, no. 60ExhibitedDresden, Zwinger Palace, 1996, no. 140 Dresden, Japanese Palace, 2010, no. 60Catalogue noteOn November 26, 1725 in the Meissen Cathedral, Höroldt married Rahel Eleonore Keil (1686-1765), the only daughter of Gottfried Keil (died 1732) and his s
A very rare Meissen inscribed and dated beaker, 1726 of tapering cylindrical form, moulded around the rim with a band of pendant calyces and applied above the foot with stiff acanthus leaves alternating with gilt scroll devices, painted, by J. G. Höroldt, on the front with a Chinoiserie scene of an artist seated at a low table with a teapot and strewn with artist's materials, working on a tablet, supported by another figure and bearing the inscription Beate/Chriftina/Keilen/Den 16.Sep/1726 in lustre, a further figure observing the scene at the left, within a Böttger lustre iron-red, puce and gilt foliate scrollwork-edged quatrefoil cartouche, the reverse with indianische Blumen and birds, unmarked.Height: 4¾ in.12.1 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceBy repute, Baroness Hammerstein Collection, Dresden (information from art dealer Arthur Wittekind, according to den Blaauwen);sale, Dr. Weizinger & Co., Munich, April 28-29, 1921, lot 134, pl. IX (illustrated with cover);Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 130 in black);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 283 (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. 1620/7);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 2021LiteratureGeorg Wilhelm Schulz 'Neues über die Vorbilder der Chinesereien des Meissner Porzellans', Mitteilungen des Städtischen Kunstgewerbemuseums zu Leipzig, No. 11/12, 1922, pp. 129-30Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler, Vol. II, Leipzig, 1925, pp. 296-97Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, no. 130, pl. 52Gustav E. Pazaurek, 'Porzellan-Chinoiserien', Der Kunstwanderer, Vol. 10, 1928, illustrated on p. 233Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 296W.B. Honey, Dresden china, an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain, London, 1954, p. 184, n. 79Rudolf Just, 'Der Meissner Hüttel-Krug', Mitteilungsblatt Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, No. 44, 1958, p. 35Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig.23Siegfried Ducret, 'Augsburger Hausmalerei', Keramos 37, 1967, p. 12, fig. 14Ingelore Menzhausen, 'Kritische Bemerkungen zu einer Gruppe con Meissner Walzenkrügen', Keramos, No. 47, 1970, p. 6Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, Vol. I, Brunswick, 1971, fig. 62Rainer Behrend, Das Meissner Musterbuch für Höroldt-Chinoiserien: Musterblätter aus der Malstube der Meissener Prozellanmanufaktur (Schulz Codex), Leipzig, 1978, p. 32, pl. XIII, fig. 131Ulrich Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775 und die Meissener Porzellanmalerei, exh. cat., Dresden, 1996, no. 140, illustratedDiethard Lübke, 'So sah Höroldt aus!', Keramos, No. 165, 1999, fig. 5Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 80-81, cat. no. 41Ulrich Pietsch & Claudia Banz, Triumph of the blue swords: Meissen porcelain for aristocracy and bourgeoisie 1720-1815, exh. cat., Dresden, 2010, no. 60ExhibitedDresden, Zwinger Palace, 1996, no. 140 Dresden, Japanese Palace, 2010, no. 60Catalogue noteOn November 26, 1725 in the Meissen Cathedral, Höroldt married Rahel Eleonore Keil (1686-1765), the only daughter of Gottfried Keil (died 1732) and his s
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