Toilet Box on Stand

Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, c. 1730

The delicate shape of this toilet box on a stand is inspired by lacquerware boxes from Japan. The decorations too are copies of scenes often depicted in Japanese lacquerware and porcelain. In 1927, when their collection was catalogued, Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer owned the box but not the stand. A few years later, they succeeded in bringing together the two pieces.

Artwork typedressing case
Object numberBK-17353
Dimensionsheight 5.5 cm x diameter 12 cm, height 0 cm x width 0 cm, height 13.5 cm, height 8.1 cm x diameter 15 cm
Physical characteristicsbeschilderd porselein

Identification

Title(s)
Toilet Box on Stand
Object type
Object number
BK-17353
Description
Toiletdoos met deksel, op een onderstel, van beschilderd porselein. Doos en onderstel hebben de vorm van een vijfpas. Het deksel is beschilderd met een dansende vrouw tussen twee staande en twee zittende figuren. Boven en onder de voorstelling langs de rand zijn wolken, rotsen, een boom en een bloemtak geschilderd. Op de wand zijn bloemtakken geschilderd en op het plat en de poten van het onderstel korenschoven en bloemen. De toiletdoos en onderstel zijn gemerkt.
Inscriptions / marks
- mark
- number: ‘103.’
- factory mark
- number: ‘[...] R [...] / [...] T 1353’
- mold mark: ‘een kruis in een cirkel viermaal (Rückert 1996, afb. 9, nr. 7)’

Creation

Creation
porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, Meissen
Dating
c. 1730
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Material and technique

Physical description
beschilderd porselein
Material
Technique
Dimensions
- height 5.5 cm x diameter 12 cm
- height 0 cm x width 0 cm
- height 13.5 cm
- height 8.1 cm x diameter 15 cm

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Subject

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. 33, no. 103.} ? 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. 34, 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

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