Four Meissen beakers, Circa 1728 each painted with continuous scene of figures at various pursuits in a garden setting between a gilt gadrooned foot and a gilt flowerhead and scrollwork border around the rim, the moulded feet richly gilt, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, numeral 1., 1., 2., or 4 in gilding.Height: 3⅜ in.8.5 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceDr. Fritz Clemm, Berlin (at least two by 1906), sale, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, November 31-December 2, 1907, lot 74, pl. 9;Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (nos. 172-175 in black);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 311 a/d (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. 1616/23);Repatriated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;Loaned by the Dutch state to the Kunstmuseum Den Haag by 1953;Restituted by the above to the heirs of Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer in 2021LiteratureKaiser Friedrich Museumsverein, Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitglieder des Kaiser Friedrich Museums-Vereins, 27. Januar bis 4. März 1906...Illustrierter Katalog, exh. cat., Berlin, 1906, p. 97, no. 445 (two)Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, nos. 172-175, pl. 76ExhibitedBerlin, Gräflich Redernsches Palais, 1906, no. 445 (two)Catalogue noteMost recently a beaker of this type painted with a continuous Chinoiserie scene was sold at Sotheby's London, June 9, 2015, lot 6, illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch, Preziosen, einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, 2001, p. 40; a further beaker was in the Marouf Collection, illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen, 2010, p. 72, no. 28. A particularly close example from the Irwin Untermyer Collection is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 64.101.162, illustrated in Hackenbroch, 1956, pl. 82, fig. 119.
Four Meissen beakers, Circa 1728 each painted with continuous scene of figures at various pursuits in a garden setting between a gilt gadrooned foot and a gilt flowerhead and scrollwork border around the rim, the moulded feet richly gilt, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, numeral 1., 1., 2., or 4 in gilding.Height: 3⅜ in.8.5 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceDr. Fritz Clemm, Berlin (at least two by 1906), sale, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, November 31-December 2, 1907, lot 74, pl. 9;Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (by 1927) (nos. 172-175 in black);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 311 a/d (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. 1616/23);Repatriated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;Loaned by the Dutch state to the Kunstmuseum Den Haag by 1953;Restituted by the above to the heirs of Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer in 2021LiteratureKaiser Friedrich Museumsverein, Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitglieder des Kaiser Friedrich Museums-Vereins, 27. Januar bis 4. März 1906...Illustrierter Katalog, exh. cat., Berlin, 1906, p. 97, no. 445 (two)Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, nos. 172-175, pl. 76ExhibitedBerlin, Gräflich Redernsches Palais, 1906, no. 445 (two)Catalogue noteMost recently a beaker of this type painted with a continuous Chinoiserie scene was sold at Sotheby's London, June 9, 2015, lot 6, illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch, Preziosen, einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, 2001, p. 40; a further beaker was in the Marouf Collection, illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen, 2010, p. 72, no. 28. A particularly close example from the Irwin Untermyer Collection is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 64.101.162, illustrated in Hackenbroch, 1956, pl. 82, fig. 119.
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