A Meissen armorial beaker and saucer, Circa 1735 the beaker painted on the front with the arms of the Counts Micheil of Venice and on the reverse with figures fishing on a rocky bank, a large gold-scaled fish caught by one, the centre of the saucer with figure in a garden holding a basket and below the rim with two vignettes of figures seated upon rockwork, a butterfly and a flower sprig, the rims with gilt patterned borders trailing flower sprigs above the coat-of-arms, crossed swords marks in underglaze blue.Diameter of saucer: 5 ⅛ in.13 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceC. H. Fischer Collection, Dresden;J. M. Heberle, Cologne, October 22-25, 1906, lot 894, illustrated;Hugo Helbing, Munich, May 13-15, 1918, lot 203, pl. 60;Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 288 in red);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 265 (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. 1570/4);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 2021LiteratureFranz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 384Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 190, cat. no. 112Catalogue noteThe ancient and noble Venetian Michiel family provided three Doges to the city, Vitale I Michiel (reign 1095-1102), Domenico Michiel (reign 1117-1130) and Vitale II Michiel (reign 1156-1172). One of the family's palazzos, the Palazzo Michiel del Brusà, was completely devastated by a fire in 1774, apparently due to the neglect of a maid, and was rebuilt three years later. The family's coat of arms survive over the entrance ways to the building. In 1714 the family acquired an adjacent property, which came to be called Palazzo Michiel dalle colonne. It is here in 1716 that the family is reputed to have played host to Friedrich August (the future Augustus III), during his Grand tour. If this beaker and saucer belonged to a service, it seems no other surviving pieces have been recorded.
A Meissen armorial beaker and saucer, Circa 1735 the beaker painted on the front with the arms of the Counts Micheil of Venice and on the reverse with figures fishing on a rocky bank, a large gold-scaled fish caught by one, the centre of the saucer with figure in a garden holding a basket and below the rim with two vignettes of figures seated upon rockwork, a butterfly and a flower sprig, the rims with gilt patterned borders trailing flower sprigs above the coat-of-arms, crossed swords marks in underglaze blue.Diameter of saucer: 5 ⅛ in.13 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceC. H. Fischer Collection, Dresden;J. M. Heberle, Cologne, October 22-25, 1906, lot 894, illustrated;Hugo Helbing, Munich, May 13-15, 1918, lot 203, pl. 60;Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (no. 288 in red);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 265 (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. 1570/4);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 2021LiteratureFranz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 384Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 190, cat. no. 112Catalogue noteThe ancient and noble Venetian Michiel family provided three Doges to the city, Vitale I Michiel (reign 1095-1102), Domenico Michiel (reign 1117-1130) and Vitale II Michiel (reign 1156-1172). One of the family's palazzos, the Palazzo Michiel del Brusà, was completely devastated by a fire in 1774, apparently due to the neglect of a maid, and was rebuilt three years later. The family's coat of arms survive over the entrance ways to the building. In 1714 the family acquired an adjacent property, which came to be called Palazzo Michiel dalle colonne. It is here in 1716 that the family is reputed to have played host to Friedrich August (the future Augustus III), during his Grand tour. If this beaker and saucer belonged to a service, it seems no other surviving pieces have been recorded.
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