Melkkan, veelkleurig beschilderd met waterlandschappen in uitgespaarde vierpassen in een oranjerode fond, Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, c. 1735

Identification

Title(s)

Melkkan, veelkleurig beschilderd met waterlandschappen in uitgespaarde vierpassen in een oranjerode fond

Object type

Object number

BK-17402-A

Inscriptions / marks

factory mark
mark: ‘27’
mold mark

Description

Melkkan van beschilderd porselein. De melkkan is bedekt met een oranjerode fond, waarin accoladevormige vierpassen zijn uitgespaard met (water)landschappen met europese figuren, soms bij balen en schepen. De melkkan is gemerkt. Het deksel ontbreekt.

Creation

Artist

porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur

Place

Meissen

Dating

c. 1735

Material and Technique

Material

porcelain

Measurements

height 13.2 cm × width 13.1 cm × diameter 8.9 cm

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Hermitage, Petersburg, 1911;{Note RMA; Starye Gody May 1911, p. 17, image 20 and 21.}…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939) Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 265, no. Po.53.} purchased from his estate, 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

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

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

Meissen für die Zaren : Porzellan als Mittel sächsisch-russischer Politik im 18. Jahrhundert, Marianna Bubtshikova, Ulrich Pietsch, p. 48, cat.nr. 18-34
Meissen for the czars : porcelain as a means of Saxon-Russian politics in the eighteenth century, Marianna Bubtshikova, Ulrich Pietsch, p. 48, cat.nr. 18-34
Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, p. 306-307, cat.nr. 221
Europäisches Rokoko : Kunst und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts, cat.nr. 740
Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten : [Sammlung Mannheimer], p. 172, cat.nr. Taf.329
Katalog der Sammlung F[ritz] M[annheimer], P.265, cat.nr. Po.53
Malcolm D. Gutter, 'Meissen red ground wares', The Antique Collector (1989) feb., p. 37, afb. 2-3, 5.
S. Trojnitski, 'Galerja farfora Imperatorskogo Ermitaza I', Starye Gody (1911) mei, p. 17, afb. 20-21.

Persistent URL

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