Tankard

Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, c. 1725

Initially the workers at Meissen were barely capable of decorating porcelain. Undecorated porcelain objects were thus sent to Augsburg – 500 kilometres away! – where specialized Hausmaler (independent painters) applied gold ornamentation to them. This type of gold chinoiserie decoration is called Goldchinesen. The gold has been worked with an agate burin to give the scenes greater depth.

  • Artwork typestave tankard, eating & drinking utensils
  • Object numberBK-17327
  • Dimensionsheight 18.8 cm x width 15 cm x diameter 10.5 cm, height 16.7 cm
  • Physical characteristicsbeschilderd porselein en veruld zilver

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Tankard

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-17327

  • Description

    Bierpul van beschilderd porselein. De pul heeft een verguld zilveren deksel en voetring. De pul is beschilderd in goud met een scene van Chinese stijlfiguren op een console. Het zilver is gemerkt.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • town mark
    • number: ‘70.’
    • maker's mark: ‘EA’
    • date letter: ‘A’

Creation

  • Creation

    • porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, Meissen
    • porcelain painter: attributed to Abraham Seuter, Augsburg
    • silversmith: Elias Adam, Augsburg

  • Dating

    • c. 1725
    • c. 1735 - c. 1736

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    beschilderd porselein en veruld zilver

  • Dimensions

    • height 18.8 cm x width 15 cm x diameter 10.5 cm
    • height 16.7 cm

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Purchased with the support of de Vereniging Rembrandt, het Mondriaan Fonds, het Nationaal Aankoopfonds van het ministerie van OCW, de VriendenLoterij en de heer H.B. van der Ven

  • Acquisition

    purchase 2021

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection Franz (1871-1950) and Margarethe Oppenheimer (1878-1949), Berlin 1927;{Schnorr von Carolsfeld 1927, p. 21, no. 70.} ? from whom to Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, possibly 1936 or 1937;{Den Blaauwen 2000, p. 8; BDA Archiv, Restitutions Material K42-1 Oppenheimer Franz, Letter 16 May 1938, ‘An den Oberabschnitt SS’, p. 2; Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv, letter from Magistrat der Stadt Wien, dated 31 October 2016.} 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;{Note RMA.} restituted to the Oppenheimer family, 14 October 2019;{Website Dutch Restitution Committee, RC 1.164.} sale, Sammlung Oppenheimer, Important Meissen Porcelain, New York (Sotheby’s), 14 September 2021, no. 15, to the museum

  • 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

  • Siegfried Ducret, 'Augsburger Hausmalerei', Keramos 37 (1967), p. 12, afb. 22.

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