A Meissen Augustus Rex green-ground baluster vase and cover, circa 1730
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May 23, 02:11 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Meiꦆssen Augustus Rex green-ground baluster vase and cover, circa 1730
probably painted by J.E. Stadler in a vivid palette and enriched in Böttger lustre with chinoiserie panels of two figures below rockwork, a bird in flight and pine in a fence garden and a single figure between shrubs and a palm tree, within gilt dentil borders of square shaped cartouches, the plain neck and domed cover with similar smaller panels, the neck and rim of the cover gilt with scrolls, with a gilt baluster finial, underglaze blue AR mark, partial old inventory label "58.(?)"
30.5 cm. high
Margarethe 🦋(née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, no. 267;
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 261 (acquired between 1936 and 1939🉐);
Dienststelle Mühlmann,﷽ The Hague (acquired from the Estate of the above in 1941 on behalf of the Sonderauftrag Linz fo♛r the proposed Führermuseum);
On deposit at Kloster Stift Hohenfurth;
On deposit at Salzbergwerk Bad Aussee;
Recovered from the above by🐼 the Allied M🔯onuments Officers and transferred to the Central Collecting Point Munich (MCCP inv. no. 1602/1);
Repatriജated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer Collection, Amsterdam, sal🦹e, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 14-21 October 14-21, 1952, lot 298 (for 5,000 Fl bought by Ball);
An🧔onymous, sale Auktionhaus Mette, Hamburg, 23 June 2021, lot 147.
This work is offered pursuant to a settlement agreement between its current owner and the heirs of Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer.
