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A Meissen Hausmaler tankard, with silver-gilt mounts, the porcelain circa 1725-30, the decoration slightly later, the mounts Elias Adam Augsburg, 1734-6 decorated in Goldchinesen style, probably in the Seuter workshop, Augsburg, with a continuous scene of an attendant pushing a figure seated in a canopied cart with his pet monkey and reaching for a child held out in the hands of a woman before him, flanked by further figures beneath trees in a fenced and terraced garden, supported on an ornate foliate scrollwork panel between narrow scrollwork borders at the rim and foot, the centre of the hinged cover chased with a scroll- and diaperwork medallion within a similar border around the edge and affixed with a double scroll thumbpiece terminating in lions' heads, silver-gilt cover marked Augsburg, date letter A, maker's mark EA for Elias Adam Height: 7⅜ in.18.8 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. 70 in black);Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 196 (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. 1570/9);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. 70, pl. 22Franz Kieslinger, Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Vienna, 1941, no. 348Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Saksisch / Dresden China 1710-1740, Amsterdam, 1962, fig. 4Siegfried Ducret, 'Augsburger Hausmalerei', Keramos, No. 24, 1967, p. 12, fig. 22Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, Vol. 1 Goldmalereien und bunte Chinoiserien, Brunswick, 1971, p. 26, fig. 162 (attributed to Abraham Seuter)Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 203-04, cat. no. 121Catalogue noteA silver-gilt mounted tankard with a near identical gilt scene was sold at Sotheby's London, March 9, 1965, lot 161, illustrated in Ducret, 1971, figs. 165-66. Another is in the Henry H. Arnhold Collection, The Frick Collection, New York, illustrated in Cassidy Geiger, 2008, p. 599, no. 295. A waste-bowl with the same gilt-figures was in the Georg Adolf Remé Collection, Hamburg sold, Hans W. Lange, Berlin, April 7-9, 1938, lot 659, later sold at Sotheby's Monaco, May 26, 1980, lot 372. Ducret, illustrates factory wares decorated in colours using the same figuration which he believes to be the models for the Augsburg painter, figs. 161, 163-64, including a coffeepot from the Hans C. Syz Collection, in the Smithsonian, acc. no. 1982.0796 and a teapot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 42.205.70a, b. The ultimate source is likely the engraving by Arnoldus Montanus Gesantschappen aem de Kaisaren von Japan, der Ostindischen Kompagnie, Amsterdam, 1670, p. 161, though probably through an intermediary Chinoiserie print. Elias Adam Silversmith Elias Adam became a master in Augsburg in 1703, and spent the first part of his career specializing in mounting in silver and silver-gilt various precious materials: carved agate, ruby glass, painted enamels, carved ivory, even ostrich shells. Around 1720 he was mounting Augsburg-decorated faience, including pieces from the workshop of Bartholomaus Seuter. This connection may have brought him to the attention of the D