An extremely rare and probably unique pair of Meissen Augustus Rex hexagonal vases and covers, Circa 1735-40 the shape following an Arita prototype, painted on each side with vignettes of Turkish figures, after engravings by Charles François Silvestre, or Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits between broad iron-red ground Kakiemon-style borders painted with scrolling turquoise tendrils issuing from blue chrysanthemums, the covers similarly decorated with small Chinoiserie vignettes around flattened knop finials, AR mark in blue to one, crossed swords mark in blue to the other, the latter with Dreher's mark of four dots for Johann Elias Grund Senior.Height: 12⅝ in.32.1 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 (by 1927) (nos. 184 and 185 in black);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 316 a/b (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. 1563/4 and 1563/5);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 LiteratureLudwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, nos. 184-185, pls. 82-83Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 310Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld & Erich Köllmann, Porzellan der europäischen Fabriken, Brunswick, 1956, p. 93, fig. 52 on p. 91 (one vase)John Ayeys, Oliver Impey & J.V.G. Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces. The fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, London, 1990, p. 44, fig. 7 (one vase)Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 127-29, cat. no. 75Errol Manners, 'Some continental influences on English porcelain', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Vol. 19, Part 3, 2007, pp. 444-46, pl. 41Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Meissener Porzellanmalerei und Ihre Grafischen Vorlagen, Band II, Dresden, 2018, pp. 389-92, pls. 297a, 298a, 299a, 300aCatalogue note
An extremely rare and probably unique pair of Meissen Augustus Rex hexagonal vases and covers, Circa 1735-40 the shape following an Arita prototype, painted on each side with vignettes of Turkish figures, after engravings by Charles François Silvestre, or Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits between broad iron-red ground Kakiemon-style borders painted with scrolling turquoise tendrils issuing from blue chrysanthemums, the covers similarly decorated with small Chinoiserie vignettes around flattened knop finials, AR mark in blue to one, crossed swords mark in blue to the other, the latter with Dreher's mark of four dots for Johann Elias Grund Senior.Height: 12⅝ in.32.1 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 (by 1927) (nos. 184 and 185 in black);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 316 a/b (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. 1563/4 and 1563/5);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 LiteratureLudwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, nos. 184-185, pls. 82-83Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 310Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld & Erich Köllmann, Porzellan der europäischen Fabriken, Brunswick, 1956, p. 93, fig. 52 on p. 91 (one vase)John Ayeys, Oliver Impey & J.V.G. Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces. The fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, London, 1990, p. 44, fig. 7 (one vase)Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 127-29, cat. no. 75Errol Manners, 'Some continental influences on English porcelain', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Vol. 19, Part 3, 2007, pp. 444-46, pl. 41Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Meissener Porzellanmalerei und Ihre Grafischen Vorlagen, Band II, Dresden, 2018, pp. 389-92, pls. 297a, 298a, 299a, 300aCatalogue note
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