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Three vases
Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, c. 1735
Objects with a red ground are extremely rare. Moreover, the quality of the depictions on this vase is very high: harbour scenes with a low horizon and so-called indianische Blumen, flowers of the Indies, around the neck.
- Artwork typevase
- Object numberBK-17400
- Dimensionsheight 18.8 cm x diameter 11.5 cm
Identification
Title(s)
Three vases
Object type
Object number
BK-17400
Description
Vaas van beschilderd porselein. De vaas is op de hals en de voetring na bedekt met een rode fond waarin twee accoladevormige vierpassen zijn uitgespaard. De hals heeft boven de schouder een met een gouden band versierde ring en is beschilderd met Indianische Blumen. In een van de vierpassen zijn twee figuren bij een tent aan de oever van een baai met een schip geschilderd met links een tegen een pak leunende man. De vaas is gemerkt.
Inscriptions / marks
- mold mark
- factory mark: ‘AR’
Creation
Creation
- porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, Meissen
- porseleinschilder: attributed to Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, Meissen
Dating
c. 1735
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Material and technique
Dimensions
height 18.8 cm x diameter 11.5 cm
Acquisition and rights
Copyright
Provenance
Inv.;…; sale, Sammlung Darmstaedter Berlin, Berlin (Rudolph Lepke), 24 March 1925 sqq., no. 98, 18,000 RM;{Copy RKD.} …; from Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, fl. 6,350,000, en bloc, to Artistic & General Securities Ltd. as security for a loan from the Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, but kept in usufruct, 1934;{NHA, 476, RMA Archive, inv. no. 2142, Recapitulatie der geïnventariseerde kunstvoorwerpen van wijlen Dr F. Mannheimer, undated, p. 6, no. Por 58, Artistic no. 25/17; NHA, 233, Arrondissementsrechtbank Amsterdam, inv. no. 1365, “O.R. 256/1939, Faillissementsdossier: nalatenschap Dr. F. Mannheimer, 28 augustus 1939”, image 3, page 2.} purchased from Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960
Remarks
Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
Documentation
- Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Darmstädter, Berlin : Europäisches Porzellan des XVIII. Jahrhunderts, veilingcatalogus Auktionshaus Lepke, 26-3-1925, nr. 98, Taf. 33.
- Ralph H. Wark, 'Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Porzellan- und Fayencemaler des 18. Jahrhunderts 1714-1754', Mitteilungsblatt Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz 34 (1956), p. 11.
- Louis Leo Lewin, 'Die Legende um Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck', Gesellschaft der Keramikfreunde 3/4 (1955), p. 21.
- Otto von Falke, 'A porcelain painting by Löwenfinck in the Darmstadt [sic] collection', Burlington Magazine 46 (1925), p. 143-144.
- Malcolm D. Gutter, 'Meissen red ground wares', The Antique Collector, (1989) feb., p. 38, afb. 10.
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