Auction Closed
September 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen teabowl and saucer, Circa 1730
painted with vignettes of children at play between flowering plants and birds in flight, the rims edged in brown, underglaze-blue stylised caduceus mark to the teabowl and crossed swords mark to the saucer.
Diameter of saucer: 4⅝ in.
12 cm
Margare🐻the (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (no. 102 in black);
Dr. Fritz Mannh🥀eimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris,ꦬ inv. no. Por. 236 (acquired between 1936 and 1939);
Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague ♏(acquired fr🥀om 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✱/30);
Repatriated from the above to Holland𝓡 between 1945 and ღ1949;
Loaned by the Dutch State to the Ri♑jksmuseum, Amsterdam in 1952 and transferred to the museum in 1960;
Restituted 🦩by the above to the heirs of Mꦦargarethe and Franz Oppenheimer in 2021
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, no. 102, pl. 40
Franz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 8, cat. no. 8
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 293, cat. no. 213