A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted scent bottle and stopper, Circa 1730-35
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September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted scent bottle and stopper, Ci🐻rca 1730-35
of flattened flask form, moulded with enamel, gilt and Böttger lustre-heightened female masks on two sides and pain꧙ted, 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 cm
Margaret𝓀he (née Knapp, 1878-1949𒁏) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 273 in red);
Dr. Fr﷽itz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por.&✅nbsp;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 propos✤ed Führermuseum);
On deposit at Kloster Stift Hohenfurth;
On deposit at Salzbergwerk Bad Aussee;
Recovered from the above by Allied Monuments Officers and transferred to thﷺe 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 Margare♐the and Franz Oppenheimer in 2021
Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 24, cat. no. 172
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 168-69, cat. no. 97
