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-17401-A
Dimensionsheight 22.1 cm x diameter 15.6 cm

Identification

Title(s)
Three vases
Object type
Object number
BK-17401-A
Description
Vaas van beschilderd porselein. Op het onderste gedeelte na is de vaas bedekt met een oranjerode fond, waarin steeds twee accoladevormige vierpassen zijn uitgespaard met europese kooplieden bij balen aan de oever van een baai met schepen. Het komvormige onderste deel van de vaas, dat iets breder is, is beschilderd met Indianische Blumen. De vaas is gemerkt.
Inscriptions / marks
- factory mark: ‘AR’
- mold mark

Creation

Creation
- porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, Meissen
- porseleinschilder: attributed to Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, Meissen
- porseleinmodelleur: Johann Daniel Rehschuh, Meissen
Dating
c. 1735
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Material and technique

Dimensions
height 22.1 cm x diameter 15.6 cm

Acquisition and rights

Copyright
Public domain
Provenance
Inv.; …; collection Lucy Georgine Leontine von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1891-1977), Frankfurt am Main;{Pietsch 2014, p. 218, no. 135.}…; sale, Erich Max Benedikt von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1894-1987, Frankfurt am Main), Berlin (Hermann Ball, Paul Graupe), 23 (25) March 1931 sqq., no. 582, RM 46,000;{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 57a/b, Artistic no. 25/15; 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

- Die Weltkunst 5 (1931) nr. 13, p. 3, afb.
- Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld en Hans Huth, Die Sammlung Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, veilingcatalogus Hermann Ball en Paul Graupe, 25-3-1931, p. 171, nr. 582, Taf. 87.
- Pantheon 7 (1931), p. 72, afb. 5.
- Malcolm D. Gutter, 'Meissen red ground wares', The Antique Collector, (1989) feb., p. 38.

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