Budai Monk

Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, c. 1715

This figurine, inspired by Chinese soapstone figures, was a very popular product of the Meissen porcelain factory. They were known as ‘pagodas’, after the Buddhist temples with which they were associated. Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer originally had more than thirty of these Budai figures in their collection.

  • Artwork typefigure
  • Object numberBK-17476
  • Dimensionsheight 9.5 cm x width 0 cm x depth 0 cm
  • Physical characteristicsgeglazuurd porselein

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Budai Monk

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-17476

  • Description

    Figuur van onbeschilderd porselein. de figuur stelt een zittende figuur (pagode) voor. Zijn rechterhand ligt op zijn opgetrokken rechterknie. De linkerhand ligt naast het liggende linkerbeen, waarvan de voet onder het andere been is verstopt. Een kleed laat de schouders, de borst, de buik, de handen en de rechtervoet bloot. De man is kaal en heeft zijn mond geopend, zodat zijn tanden zichtbaar zijn. Het beeld is niet gemerkt.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    number: ‘2.’

Creation

  • Creation

    porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, Meissen

  • Dating

    c. 1715

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    geglazuurd porselein

  • Dimensions

    height 9.5 cm x width 0 cm x depth 0 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. 1, no. 2.} ? 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. 1, 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.

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