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A very rare Meissen chocolate set, Circa 1730-35 comprising a beaker, a two-handled reticulated trembleuse, a footed sweetmeat dish and a shaped trefoil footed stand; the beaker painted beneath the rim with a continuous scene of Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits in gardens and above the foot with three Böttger lustre and gilt scrollwork-edged cartouches painted with harbour scenes, the trembleuse pierced with a band of gilt mons devices, the sweetmeat dish painted with a quayside scene within a Böttger lustre, gilt, iron-red and purple enamel trellis- and scrollwork-edged cartouche, and the stand with a central star device in Böttger lustre and gilding and moulded with three gilt-edged wells for its components painted with Chinoiserie figures, alternating with three Böttger lustre, gilt, iron-red and purple enamel trellis- and scrollwork-edged cartouches painted with quayside scenes, the underside painted with scattered indianische Blumen within a black-dotted turquoise-ground border painted with blue and yellow chrysanthemums issuing leafy tendrils, the stem of the foot painted with purpurmalerei scenes, Chinoiserie figures and gilt trelliswork and scrollwork borders, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, the beaker and holder with Dreher's mark of two dots for Johann Martin Kittel Junior.Width of stand: 8⅛ in.20.7 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceMargarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna (by 1927) (no. 213 in black);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 370 (acquired between 1936 and 1939);Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague (acquired from the Estate of the above in 1941 on behalf of the Sonderauftrag Linz for the proposed Führermuseum);On deposit at Kloster Stift Hohenfurth;On deposit at Salzbergwerk Bad Aussee;Recovered from the above by Allied Monuments Officers and transferred to the Central Collecting Point Munich (MCCP inv. no. 1475/6 abcd);Repatriated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;Loaned by the Dutch State to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam in 1952 and transferred to the museum in 1960;Restituted by the above to the heirs of Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer in 2021LiteratureLudwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Meissener Porzellan, Berlin, 1927, no. 213, pls. 97-98Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 330Hermann Jedding, Europäisches Porzellan, Vol. I Von den Anfängen bis 1800, Munich 1971/1979, fig. 72Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 158-60, cat. no. 90Meredith Chilton & Claudia Lehner-Jobst (eds.), Fired by Passion, Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier Vol. I, Stuttgart, 2009, p. 425, fig. 5:14Ulrich Pietsch & Claudia Banz, Triumph of the blue swords: Meissen porcelain for aristocracy and bourgeoisie 1720-1815, exh. cat., Dresden, 2010, no. 121ExhibitedDresden, Japanese Palace, 2010, cat. no. 121Catalogue noteOnly one other complete Meissen set of this type appears to have been recorded, from the Ludwig Darmstädter Collection, Berlin, sold, Rudolph-Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, March 24-26, 1925, lot 100. Silver-gilt versions of this form appear in two contemporary paintings by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder (1722-1789), circa 1755, in the Ahnengalerie of Schloss Wilhelmsthal, Calden, Kassel. One portrays Princess Wilhelmine von Hessen-Kassel (1726-1808), holding a blue and white porcelain beaker in a trembleuse mount, seated by a console table supporting blue and white vases and white figures; the other depicts an unknown lady, holding what appears to be a Meissen Hausmaler beaker in a trembleuse mount. The depictions are illustrated in Marianne Heinz and Erich Herzog (eds.) Johann Heinrich Tischbein d. Ä. 1722 - 1789, Kassel trifft sich - Kassel erinnert sich