A Meissen waste bowl, Circa 1725-28 painted, possibly by C. F. Herold, with a continuous quayside scene of European and Chinese figures, masted sailing ships and smaller boats anchored at shore or at sea below a cloud strewn sky, the centre of the interior with a trellis- and flowerhead-pattern roundel beneath a gilt flowerhead and scrollwork border on the rim, crossed swords mark in blue enamel.Diameter: 7 in.17.8 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceMarie Rosenfeld (1841-1914) (née Goldschmidt, sister of Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild), her estate sale, Fred. Muller, Amsterdam, May 9-12, 1916, lot 502, illustrated;sale, Fred. Muller, Amsterdam, April 5-7, 1927, lot 566, illustrated;Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 244 in red);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 381 (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. 1478/7);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 Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer in 2021LiteratureFranz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 27, cat. no. 213Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig. 13Malcolm D. Gutter, 'Meissen Chinoiserie & harbour scenes', The Antique Collector, 1988, fig. 2Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 77, cat. no. 38Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Meissener Porzellanmalerei und Ihre Grafischen Vorlagen, Band II, Dresden, 2018, p. 53, pl. 36aCatalogue noteA milk jug from this service was in the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus by 1965, who in 1980 gifted it to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acc. no. 1980.614a-b. A coffee pot is in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; and a teabowl and saucer, an octagonal sugar box and a further teabowl are in the Gutter Collection, the latter two illustrated in Santangelo, 2018, pp. 122-25, 245, pls. 36 and 37. The teabowl is also illustrated with the present lot and the abovementioned coffee pot in Gutter, 1988, figs. 1 and 4. A pair of teabowls and saucers from the service was in the David Sachs Collection, sold, Sotheby's London, March 10, 1970, lot 28; one later sold at Christie's Geneva, May 13, 1985, lot 177, the other sold at Christie's London, November 12, 2018, lot 303. The two large ships appear to be inspired by the engraving by Stefano Della Bella plate 5 from the series Paysages Maritimes 1620–1664. A later print of this plate by Jeremias Wolff (1663-1724) is retained in the Meissen archive and is illustrated in Bodinek, op. cit., pl. 36.
A Meissen waste bowl, Circa 1725-28 painted, possibly by C. F. Herold, with a continuous quayside scene of European and Chinese figures, masted sailing ships and smaller boats anchored at shore or at sea below a cloud strewn sky, the centre of the interior with a trellis- and flowerhead-pattern roundel beneath a gilt flowerhead and scrollwork border on the rim, crossed swords mark in blue enamel.Diameter: 7 in.17.8 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceMarie Rosenfeld (1841-1914) (née Goldschmidt, sister of Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild), her estate sale, Fred. Muller, Amsterdam, May 9-12, 1916, lot 502, illustrated;sale, Fred. Muller, Amsterdam, April 5-7, 1927, lot 566, illustrated;Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 244 in red);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 381 (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. 1478/7);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 Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer in 2021LiteratureFranz Kieslinger, Verzeichnis der Restbestände der Sammlung Mannheimer, [S.I.], 1941, p. 27, cat. no. 213Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig. 13Malcolm D. Gutter, 'Meissen Chinoiserie & harbour scenes', The Antique Collector, 1988, fig. 2Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 77, cat. no. 38Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Meissener Porzellanmalerei und Ihre Grafischen Vorlagen, Band II, Dresden, 2018, p. 53, pl. 36aCatalogue noteA milk jug from this service was in the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus by 1965, who in 1980 gifted it to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acc. no. 1980.614a-b. A coffee pot is in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; and a teabowl and saucer, an octagonal sugar box and a further teabowl are in the Gutter Collection, the latter two illustrated in Santangelo, 2018, pp. 122-25, 245, pls. 36 and 37. The teabowl is also illustrated with the present lot and the abovementioned coffee pot in Gutter, 1988, figs. 1 and 4. A pair of teabowls and saucers from the service was in the David Sachs Collection, sold, Sotheby's London, March 10, 1970, lot 28; one later sold at Christie's Geneva, May 13, 1985, lot 177, the other sold at Christie's London, November 12, 2018, lot 303. The two large ships appear to be inspired by the engraving by Stefano Della Bella plate 5 from the series Paysages Maritimes 1620–1664. A later print of this plate by Jeremias Wolff (1663-1724) is retained in the Meissen archive and is illustrated in Bodinek, op. cit., pl. 36.
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