An extremely rare Meissen armorial two-handled beaker from the service made for Elizabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain, Circa 1735 richly decorated in enamels and gilding on each side with an elaborate crowned escutcheon bearing the arms of the Farnese family, Dukes of Parma, flanked by Chinoiserie figures standing or seated in gardens beneath a gilt scrollwork border on the gilt-edged rim, the interior, handles and footrim fully gilt, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, two dots in gilding.Height: 2⅝ in.6.7 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceGift of Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, to Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain, on the occasion of his daughter's marriage to the King of Naples;Wilhelm von Bode, Charlottenburg;The Royal Collections of Saxon, Johanneum, Dresden (acquired from Bode in 1901);Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 262 in red);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 342 a/b (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. 1571/20);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 2021LiteratureGustav E. Pazaurek, Meissner Porzellanmalerei des 18. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart, 1929, p. 43Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 373Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Der Menschheit bewahrt: Schätze der Weltkultur, exh. cat., Dresden, 1959, no. A229 or A233Hermann Jedding, Europäisches Porzellan, Vol. I Von den Anfängen bis 1800, Munich, 1971/1979, fig. 74Ingelore Menzhausen, Alt-Meissner Porzellan in Dresden, Berlin, 1988, p. 201, pl. 63Günter Reinheckel, Prachtvolle Service aus Meissner Porzellan, Leipzig, 1989, pl. 42Ulrich Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775 und die Meissener Porzellanmalerei, exh. cat., Dresden, 1996, nos. 163-77Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 178, cat. no. 104ExhibitedDresden, Albertinum, 1959, no. A229 or A233Catalogue note
An extremely rare Meissen armorial two-handled beaker from the service made for Elizabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain, Circa 1735 richly decorated in enamels and gilding on each side with an elaborate crowned escutcheon bearing the arms of the Farnese family, Dukes of Parma, flanked by Chinoiserie figures standing or seated in gardens beneath a gilt scrollwork border on the gilt-edged rim, the interior, handles and footrim fully gilt, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, two dots in gilding.Height: 2⅝ in.6.7 cmCondition reportFor further information please contact oppenheimer@sothebys.com; +1 212 894 1442.ProvenanceGift of Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, to Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain, on the occasion of his daughter's marriage to the King of Naples;Wilhelm von Bode, Charlottenburg;The Royal Collections of Saxon, Johanneum, Dresden (acquired from Bode in 1901);Margarethe (née Knapp, 1878-1949) and Dr. Franz (1871-1950) Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna, bearing label (no. 262 in red);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 342 a/b (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. 1571/20);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 2021LiteratureGustav E. Pazaurek, Meissner Porzellanmalerei des 18. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart, 1929, p. 43Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 373Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Der Menschheit bewahrt: Schätze der Weltkultur, exh. cat., Dresden, 1959, no. A229 or A233Hermann Jedding, Europäisches Porzellan, Vol. I Von den Anfängen bis 1800, Munich, 1971/1979, fig. 74Ingelore Menzhausen, Alt-Meissner Porzellan in Dresden, Berlin, 1988, p. 201, pl. 63Günter Reinheckel, Prachtvolle Service aus Meissner Porzellan, Leipzig, 1989, pl. 42Ulrich Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775 und die Meissener Porzellanmalerei, exh. cat., Dresden, 1996, nos. 163-77Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 178, cat. no. 104ExhibitedDresden, Albertinum, 1959, no. A229 or A233Catalogue note
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