Lidded vase

Lidded vase

BK-17376-A

Vaas met deksel van beschilderd porselein. De vaas is op de hals na bedekt met een gele fond, waarin op het lichaam en het deksel twee guirlandes van Indianische Blumen zijn geschilderd. In de gele fond zijn uitgespaard twee grote bijna cirkelvormige velden met gelobde randen, waarin contour-chinoiserieën zijn geschilderd en zes peervormige velden met vogels en bloemen. De vaas is gemerkt.

• factory mark: ‘AR’
• number: ‘[...] 59.’
• number: ‘259.’
• label: ‘SAMMLUNG / Dr. FRANZ OPPENHEIMER’

porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, Meissen

c. 1735

beschilderd porselein

height 47 cm x diameter 22.2 cm

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

purchase 2021

Public domain

…; collection Graaf Vietinghoff-Scheel, Berlin;{Note RMA.} …; 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. 104, with BK-17376-B, to the museum

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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