Coffee and Tea Service, of the Morosini family

Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, 1731

In the early 20th century, this coffee and tea service was owned by collectors Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer. In 1936, fleeing the Nazi persecution of the Jews, they took their collection with them to Austria, where it was stored at the border. In 1937, they were forced to sell their porcelain. The Oppenheimers survived the war, but never saw their collection again.

  • Artwork typetea service, coffee service
  • Object numberBK-17421
  • Physical characteristicsbeschilderd porselein in foedraal van met leer bekleed hout

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Coffee and Tea Service, of the Morosini family

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-17421

  • Description

    Achttiendelig koffie- en theeservies, veelkleurig beschilderd met Höroldt-chinoiserieën en het wapen van de Venetiaanse familie Morosini, in een rechthoekige etui van met leer bekleed hout.

Creation

  • Creation

    porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, Meissen

  • Dating

    1731

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    beschilderd porselein in foedraal van met leer bekleed hout

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;{Note RMA.} ? 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. 94, 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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